Elements #19: Polished Granite, Shell, 5"x7", oil on panel, © 2017 R.L. Delight
Painting this brought surprising insights today.
This was a simpler painting but it wasn't an easy painting for me to
do. I struggled with it and felt I didn't quite hit the mark I was
aiming for. This one, more than any other so far this month, really
tempted me to wipe it off. Fortunately, I know better than to do that.
Even so, I reluctantly posted it on my Facebook page.
Sometimes I
can be humbled by my own work. Not because I think it is a particularly
fine piece, but that it touches someone else in an unexpected way. Isn't
that what it is all about on some level? A person takes time to comment
on how much they like a piece. That brings up the emotions in me of
gratitude, awe, wonder, and the feeling of "humbleness". I know I am
groping here, trying to express something that is deeply personal and
hard to articulate, but I feel that this painting has given me an
insight and that is a significant step along my journey of being an
artist.
Even though I
was personally disappointed that I didn't achieve what I was attempting
to accomplish in this little painting, I did try my best in the time I
had been given. I did paint it with great interest and joy in the
process as well as the subject and I did learn. Perhaps that gets into
even the most frustrating of paintings. I don't really know but I do
know that something has been changed for me. I will have to think about
it...
-Renee
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