Try, try, try again.
Page Helmick
How many time did we hear our parents tell us “if at first you don’t succeed, try again”. Actually by now most of us have probably used this same phrase, or at least the concept, on our own children.
Well last year I treated myself to an expensive set of paints, which were all ‘grayed down’ in the tube. This means that the blue is a blue-gray color, the green a green-gray color and so on. I thought I would love the idea of using these paints.
In the first version you see above, I used those paints exclusively. Although it could be argued that it’s not a bad painting, it’s just not representative of my work and style. So after it dried, I went back and ‘made it mine’.
Hope you like the revised, blue sky version better. I know I do.
Cheers!
-Rick