'Fessing Up To That Embarrassment

by Cooper on 6/8/2010 10:27:08 PM1 Comment

Greetings,

Welcome to the Cooper studio, Jefferson, Iowa.

I so enjoyed reading the article on embarrassment, by Clint, about old paintings we have, and wish we never had! I decided to post a couple of photos "indicating" my degree of embarrassment. I went through the archives and came up with a good candidate or two, and then came to a realization.

Here it is: it's a six of one, half dozen of the other, kind of situation. On the "six of one side", yup, that old painting makes me cringe a little. On the "half dozen of the other" side, parking the old painting smack dab next to a more recent painting, hey, that makes me feel pretty good---there's quite a bit of "developmental distance" between the two. If the old painting is the first rung on the ladder, then the newer painting has to be at least the third rung and maybe even the fourth.

Dios mio, how tall is my ladder? But, then again, I like the idea of a tall ladder. It indicates many experiences yet to be, many studies yet to learn, many paintings yet to paint. The game of ladder climbing contiues to be ever so exciting.

Glad We Don't Have Anything Much To Do, acrylic painting on a 30 x 30 inch canvas. It's currently part of my solo show at the WineBarArtGallery in Arnolds Park, Iowa.

Thanks for stopping by.

Later, Cooper

1 Response to 'Fessing Up To That Embarrassment

	Dona via karencooperpaintings.com	20 months ago
	It sounds interesting. I wish I could see the photos, but all I get is a white square with a red x in the center.

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