Post #749920 by swizzle on Fri, Aug 28, 2015 6:48 PM

On 2015-08-28 06:39, MadDogMike wrote:
With wood carving, you have to stop at some point or you have nothing but a pile of chips. But you can keep adding paint to a canvas forever, refining areas and covering mistakes. How do you tell when you are "done"?

So very true Mike, but they are only 'mistakes' to YOU. As to when you are "done", only you can answer that. In general most artists are never happy with their work and you can keep trying to fix areas you don't like but then when you are finally satisfied then you will see another section that then needs 'improving' and you will just keep going and going until you convince yourself that it looks nothing like how you wanted, and then hate the piece.

It's best to call it quits when you first think to yourself that it's "done", and then put it aside and start on a new piece. At least that's the way i see it.

Nice start by the way. I could never get the hang of oil paints.