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It's never complete... you just stop working on it.

that will mean you stop thinking, feeling, meanwhile the beauty grows with time i think?

a complete work is a plain canvas!!!!

when its done.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

When you upload it. But even then you can replace it.

I thought all my works were completely finished, until I joined FAA, found out about that great controversy I encountered here, day one, about digital vs original.......and got right into totally reinventing my originals, got over their preciousness, and CREATED all new art from only my pix, I didn't look elsewhere....and am thrilled with the new looks on each one.......it's like re-birthing, thoughts and objects..........so exciting...................goodness, I got carried away here. I should show you my dead poets paintings compared to my live poets paintings, same subject, sooooooo different...why overlook the potential !!! One does have to reconcile having no 'original', instead a 'file'............buyers don't care, mostly. Galleries do, but they're not ringing my bells..........

goodnight from Oz at 10 pm.........here , Saturday.

When I find myself simply adding a brush stroke with no intent..it is time to pause and set it aside. I hang my paintings through out my home until they are sold. I continue to view them and until they are sold and/or delivered to my customer, I will allow myself the opportunity to fine tune a piece and sometimes to completely redo it. My skill set grows from painting to painting and I paint daily..no work is so precious as not to be improved.

VIVA, it's nice to see you! Love your viewpoint here.

I know it's time to step aside when I start fixing problems that don't exist. Move this here, fix this light, fiddle with that... That's when I step away and that's usually the right time to call it done.

In the words of the late (great) Yogi Berra, "It ain't over 'til it's over."




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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

I believe Bonnard was know to begin anew or rework paintings he had, "finished" years prior. Everyone approaches this differently. There are no rules here. I am finished when I no longer see a reason to continue usually this is after about two weeks working on a piece. But if I leave it for a time I can think of many other things that I could change. If I picked up something from five years ago I'd probably paint it in a different way now. I have paintings from ten and twenty years ago that I can hardly stand to look at. I have progressed.

My works are complete when I see nothing left to add that will improve it... adding more will detract from whatever I see as a strength in the work.



In the case of "Unfinished Blonde" I reached a point where the great strength of the painting was the contrast and composition, nothing I could do would improve on that and finishing it in the traditional sense would destroy that strength. So it was finished (in my opinion), before it was finished in the traditional sense.

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A friend in my art guild watched me make a painting, I was adding leaves and texture to a landscape. Just adding stuff. She has a great word for that... "dinking."

Gotta know when to stop dinking with it....

When i think about FAA is thinking about the buyers satisfactions of my work and the beauty of painting to bring togetherness,peace,love and healing. my work is complete by viewers satisfactions and following Cheryl. Almost everyone can draw a ball but not everyone can build the story line of it to bring about good memories. A work is complete when it heals the buyers or viewers, some art are funny just for laugh and comedian make money from people laughing. The Footballer is one example, Ed said it reminder him of history and i was happy about it because i want my work to remind of the good like FAA.

The tree of love is complete for the views but the concept is not. art is old and new, we are in the mix but there is a edge spot for those who want to stay between. Satisfaction completes my work