Five Favorite Things About Being an Artist: #3

As I have exhaustingly detailed in earlier blog posts, completing the painting part of a painting is a mix of pain and pleasure. But, completing the first layer is always a joy! It is a small moment where you first get to see what a painting will be.


Instead of focusing on all the work that lies ahead, the second layer with all its details, I focus on the triumph of getting it to this point. In this case, the days of trying to figure out when the tide will creep up onto the flat, the inevitable days of getting it wrong, keeping my camera safe from the passing thunderstorms, the endless photo edits, to even the physical fact of the prepared panel and the countless hours of coating, sanding, and recoating. But here is where that panel disappears, where the last of the white (or in this case where I used a tinted ground, pink) dissapears, and all that hard work is behind you and a painting emerges. Thus, #3 on my list of five favorite things about being an artist...

-jb.