You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
- Arlo Guthrie
I held a paintbrush again, after 14 years, and if it is not evident in this humble byproduct, then I should tell you how nostalgic/liberating an exercise it was indeed.
The last painting I painted was a throwback to a Monet, a kind of homage to him and his style. He and his contemporaries are one-third the art I was exposed to when I was growing up. The other two-thirds were Renaissance, and Bob Ross. It's true. Don't judge.
Is it a good thing that I have control over the brush now, and I know it? Or is it bad that I approach a blank canvas with control right on the onset? I don't know. But, in the end, I liked what I did. It's a simple project, but no simple feat. I'm glad they invented artist's tape. ;)
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