As you struggle with your painting, you eventually become one with it.
That is, you get so involved in it that you become a part of it.
This is a painting, (the subject can be realistic, or abstract) with which you have some identity.
It is not just a casual one hour study. The subject means something to you!
You have done sketches, color and value drawings, perhaps you photographed the subject originally.
Now you are painting and nothing is going right! What went wrong with your preparation?
Whatever you do, it seems to get worse. The colors are wrong. The values are in the wrong place.
You fix one thing, you think, and then another area glares at you like a spotlight!
How can this be when I prepared so carefully?
Perhaps I am too close to my creation.
Give it a rest, come back tomorrow.
Come back tomorrow when we are both rested.
Then I will ask it to tell me what it needs.
And the painting will answer!
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