…abstract and finished it today.

When I picked it up I intended to do some warm up painting before I continued working on a commissioned painting. I wanted to test a few colour mixes and because this abstract had been annoying me for many weeks, I picked it up not expecting to achieve anything much - it was one of those paintings that I kept working on and changing, turning upside down and rewriting…like first it was rocks in a landscape , then it was trees in a landscape, then some cows in a copse of trees, then a smaller cow on some rocks then a really big cow in front of a fence…kind-of-thing.

Anyway…for weeks and weeks it got nowhere. I was stuck. It didn’t matter that I was stuck because it wasn’t important. It was an ugly looking work, too dark, gloomy, messy, odd, unbalanced, confused. It wasn’t for anyone, not for any project or any purpose - but I kept going back to it, it was my in-between paintings painting. My little dumping ground….

But today I finished it. I got in a flow and finally found a path I could take out of the mess to make it work and it quickly came together. So I did just enough to complete it before I moved on to other work.

Done.

I’ll not touch it again except for the back…and to sign and date it…

…and find myself a new dumping ground.