Saturday, May 12, 2007

You only thought it was finished.


A Study in Vanilla © 2007 Karen Mathison Schmidt
6 x 6 • acrylic on gessobord
Gloss varnish for protection and ease of cleaning • sold unframed
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Well, as often happens with me, after living with the “finished” painting for a day or two, I saw a couple of teeny adjustments I wanted to make on this. That’s why I never varnish right away; if, after a few days, I see nothing to change about a painting, then and only then do I consider it truly done. Every now and then I’ll see something I wish I’d done differently a year or so later, but oh well.

So here’s the final final version. See if you can tell what I changed (one thing is totally obvious, the other thing may take a little more study) and I’ll reveal what I did in the next post. Fun, huh? Kind of like an activity in Highlights!

And now, on to another little piece ... I love it when I can spend all day painting!

2 comments:

Kerri Settle said...

Oh oh, you darkened the background on the right and top. (I like that touch!) I'm glad you got some smaller pieces to play around with!

Karen M Schmidt said...

Hi Kerri!
Yep! I put a blue glaze over the background areas; I also straightened out the lines of the row of border tiles at the back. Before it looked to me kind of like there was a dip in the countertop, so straightening those lines lessened that effect.