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Hello all!
I'm just having a little frustrated rant. I've just spent 4 hours painting when nothing has gone right. It was a work in progress but I was pleased with it so I thought I'd spend an quiet afternoon relaxing and doing a bit more.
Would the sea go right? No it looked awful so I had to paint over it and start again, but of course I couldn't mix an exact match which disappointed me. So I tried the waves/ripples again and they still don't look brilliant.
So I moved onto doing the sky and the clouds looked rubbish, so I painted over them and tried again. Guess what? Still look rubbish.
So I thought I'd tidy up the two figures, went ok until I got to the hand in view. Well, the poor girl went from looking like her arm was 8 inches too short, to then having a normal length shapeless arm, and finally her fingers looked like either Captain Hook or something out of Dr Who!!
Now I've looked at it while in a bad mood for so long I'm ready to screw it up. But I've set it aside and packed my paints away, in the hope that it's only my grump that's making it look so dire, and that if I look at it again tomorrow it won't be as bad.
My question is how often, if at all do you get days like this? If so, what do you do about it? I'm thinking maybe I should have walked away sooner, I only hope I haven't over worked it and spoilt it.
Best wishes, Tania X
Ps. I suppose I should have known better than to tackle clouds, water and hands in one sitting. The three things I'm useless at! Doh! X
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Yes, yes, and indeed - yes again. I sure do get days like that. Best then just to stop, put the rotten thing away, get on with something else and/or take to drink. Not that this is a long journey for me.
I think on the whole if you're in a mood, you're depressed and fed up, you're angry with the council, your partner, the government, next door's dog, maybe don't try to paint unless of course anger and frustration happen to motivate you. Sometimes they do actually motivate me, but on the whole not. So what I do when in this sort of mood is go for a walk - as fast as my ageing legs will allow, until I work off the tensions.
I'm quite sure we're all familiar with this sort of thing - well I hope we are, otherwise you and I are a couple of freaks......
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Absolutely and most of the time Tania, though I admire your persistence as I would have thrown it out or given up a lot sooner. You did the right thing it putting it away for another day. Sometimes when we come back to it we get an epiphany (or at least I do) and then you can see the wood for the trees, so to speak. And yes, you did put an awful lot on yourself by trying to tackle all your weakest subjects in one go. So 10 out of 10 for optimism! As I always say "tomorrow's another day" - or someone else might have said it and I have just copied it!
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Well Tania, if the worst thing that can happen is that you have to throw it out in the end, that is not so bad is it. I'm thinking of putting a fast-running conveyor belt between my workdesk and my window to speed up the process of throwing my stuff out. Good luck. Thank you and Enjoy your Sunday too. x