A frustrating week
This has been a frustrating week. I have major computer problems--a nasty virus has infected. I got it off, finally, on Wednesday, but now I can't visit several of the websites that I desparately need to visit--Deviantart, google, yahoo, photobucket--because both IE and Foxfire hang halfway to loading them.
And, to top it off, I have three ruined paintings. In the last five years I have given up on less than five paintings (once started--they often abort in the sketch stage). Mostly, it's my stubbornness, since I want to throw away almost every painting I start, at some point during the painting process, but most of them end up once I push past that ugly stage. But now I have three paintings that I have ruined, and I cannot decide whether to push on or re-do them or what.
The ink turned out not to be water proof on the dancer, and smeared all over the place. And THEN it became waterproof, because I haven't been able to wash out the smears! I will try to fix it by switching to opaque acrylics. The pirate was in my bag, which turned out to be soaking wet. The illustration board is all warped and the top layer is peeling off, so the only way to fix it now is to start over. I'm not really sure that the painting is worth starting over, though. It is just a silly sketch, and my sketchbook is full of silly sketches.
The kitty painting was going relatively well, in acrylics on a watercolor block, but the paper unpeeled itself from the rest of the block. I will probably go ahead and finish it, but now it will get all wrinkled because the block is what keeps the paper flat when you put water on it.
To end on a positive note, this painting is going well!
