So this is the previous…
This is the progress …
And this is the goal.
Well, the white blotch on the front center looks more and more like bird poop. Also I might have to just go to square one on the bottom left corner.
Weekly Paint Progress: 2/19/2026
5 responses to “Weekly Paint Progress: 2/19/2026”
Revision is hard! Are you learning useful things from the bits that don’t work like you wanted them to? Or is it just being annoying with no palliative aspects?
(also is this a thing where you can either paint things in an abstract manner *or* you can paint every single individual petal but there is not much in-between? or are there in-between techniques?)
KC – I need to find a middle ground between photo-real and letting the viewer fill in the details. I was enjoying myself so you got some extra petals.
I’m just thinking that I can’t remember *seeing* middle ground; I’ve seen “oh, yes, that implies [thing] beautifully even though the details are different!” and “photorealistic neck ruff lace wow” but… surprisingly little in between.
That said, what an unsophisticated Viewer Of Art most notices about paintings: probably exactly those two opposite ends of the spectrum, where it’s splotchy enough that you don’t initially quite see what’s going on and then you blink and you do, or where there is *photorealistic neck ruff lace* so. Almost certainly just a filtering error, because there are plenty of medium splotches in, say, that Sunday Afternoon at the Park painting but does my brain store that information? noooo.
(I’m *very* glad you were enjoying yourself! Yay!!!)
KC _ I would love to be like John Singer Sargent and paint a loose scribbly thing that comes into radiant focus when you step back a pace,