Before my attention is diverted from painting to storm
recovery, let me update my entry, All in
a day’s work, dated August 25th.
From the very beginning of these diary pages, my intention
has been to give an insight into the creative process, not so much in terms of
how to mix one colour with another or how to fathom out perspective, but rather
the successes and failures that are essentially part of creativity. By its very nature, creativity is different
to what has gone before. Repetitive painting
to a formula gets you nowhere. Every
painting must involve risk. It has been
said that a water colour cannot be right until it has gone wrong. Creativity follows the same pattern.
In the heat of the moment I cannot judge whether I have
succeeded or failed. My last painting of
Annabelle, thrown down minutes before the end of the session, satisfied me at
the time. But on second thoughts, I now realise
that the painting that came before it ranks as the best of that day’s work. Thank you Annabelle for bearing with me.
I find that large paintings reduced to the size of a computer
screen lose much of their impact, hence the detail.
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