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An Artist’s Life

Posted on by omordah1

A few weeks ago, I published a story about a recent painting I had done. A few weeks gone by and something just wasn’t sitting right with me about the painting. At one point I had changed something and the more I looked at it, the more I realized that I preferred the original way that I had done it. There were a few small things and one bigger thing I just wasn’t happy with.

This morning I decided to rework it a bit. This is something that I rarely do as I learned a long time ago that it was easy to go too far and completely ruin a painting. I try to work as much in the moment as I can. In this particular case, I am happy that I did. To my eye, it looks more like what I had envisioned.

I give you, (once again 🙂 “LAPDOG”

VS

Let me know what you think! I hope your week is off to a good start. Please like and follow this and my Instagram page at susanm.l.mooreartist as well as etsy.com/shop/omordah .

Work In Progress

Posted on by omordah1

Oftentimes, the business of art has to play second fiddle to the business of life. This is the case of a piece I’m currently working on. Though bit by bit, it is coming along, it is slower than I’d prefer.

I can’t speak for other artists, but there are times when I just don’t feel like painting. And as I’m the sole source of inspiration and motivation when it comes to my artwork, having these moments takes a lot of self determination. Add that to general interruptions, necessary daily life things that need to be done or chances to hang with family, and well, you get the picture.

I’m happy to say though that I’m sticking with it. There is another issue with interruptions to the inspiration and joy of painting, sometimes not often, but sometimes if these interruptions happen too many times or last overly long, they can kill the inspiration and excitement for a piece altogether. I’m happy to say that this isn’t the case this time. So I thought I’d show a detail of this piece and how it’s coming along, and hopefully soon I can post the finished work. All for now, I hope everyone’s week is off to a good start.