And After Much Thought, I Mean, Adjustment by Cooper on 1/26/2010 12:06:51 PM Greetings and welcome to the Cooper studio on this fine January morning. The sun is shining. Wow! I don't know quite how to behave with that! :)And After Much Thought, I Mean, Adjustment , we are harking back to a recent post where I discussed the issue of how many thumbnail sketches is a good number for planning a painting. I am still researching the subject, and it seems to be coming under the heading of trialanderror. The selected thumbnail drawing for today's posted painting resembled kind of an h-shape, and I wish I knew where it went. As the painting progressed and I went down the path of three-steps-forward-two-steps-back, the painting now shares a strong kinship with one of the eight thumbnail drawings I had earlier deemed unworthy and not worth pursuing. How DO these things happen? I suppose I should not be thrashing this issue, when I end up with a painting that I'm really pleased with, right? But sometimes, don't you just wish for a miracle formula where every single painting happens easily beautiful and beautifully easy? Sigh. How about we just enjoy the painting now, eh?Lunch Date , an acrylic painting on canvas, measuring an expansive 41 x 31.5 inches. This canvas stretcher is of a shallower depth, so I went ahead and put it in a canvas floater frame. Black, nice, always gives a good presentation, one of my favorites.
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Yours turned out well, though... even if, perhaps it didn't paint itself... (Don't you just LOVE it when that happens???)