Today, I was sketching something out and prematurely added a little paint to it thinking I was going into a direction I liked- when realized that I messed the entire chair up. I am really bad about doing this. I’m really bad about putting paint down before I’ve even finished my sketch. It’s an impulsiveness in me and it’s the way my brain works like a very fast at things.

I don’t know what I was thinking, but when I went to put in the back leg, I was totally off-center. I mean, I completely missed the mark, but since I’d already started outlining with my brown watercolor, I only had a gap that I could work with, so I decided to hang a jacket there to fill in that space and try to make it less obvious. I mean, in all honesty it would’ve been much easier just to scrap it, but I was committed to it.

So it actually ended up changing the piece entirely. I decided to make it about little things that we enjoy. it was originally going to be a chair with a warm loaf of bread and a window behind it. But I decided to completely change the focus.

I think it turned out OK. I tried to blur it up around those areas so it wouldn’t draw so much attention to it by giving it kind of a dreamy hazy effect. All in all that came out OK it looks a little amateurish, but in some ways it is. I don’t normally paint things like this and I haven’t painted in quite some time. We never stop learning.

Hind sight is always 20/20. I can look at it now and see several different ways that I could’ve fixed it where it wouldn’t have been noticeable at all- but again that’s all part of the learning process.

I’m glad I didn’t scrap it.