OOPS! I spilled hot coco all over the couch, my Bloom County books and the recently finished artwork of the Pink Pony Girl artwork. I almost completely scrapped it.
After a day or two, it dried out and I had a closer look. The thing about a major fuck up like this, is when you’re an artist, you can’t let it get you down. Contrary to what art critics and collectors say, it’s hard to truly RUIN artwork. You can destroy an artist’s work. It can become forgotten, it can become lost, but this notion that something from an artist can never BE again, shows one doesn’t understand art.
Art evolves, art transforms, and part of being an artist is creating again and again. So if an artist looses a piece, if they want that energy back, they create it again. Sometimes the coolest pieces come from when a disaster happened. A canvas got torn, something got burned, paint got smudged, etc.
One of the coolest things I saw, were a number of old pieces, possibly even renaissance era that would never be in good enough condition to restore properly. They were not in collectable condition, and technically were worthless. An artist got a hold of them, and painted in Star Wars themes fitting in with the painting style. These are amazing and combine the sci-fi themes on real, ancient art paintings.
This isn’t Star Wars or classic painting, but I looked over the piece and decided to keep going. I used brown watercolor marker for the skin tones, covered over a lot of areas with silver gel pen, and cut the paper around the boot. I’m liking where it was going and will have the finished item soon.
Dungeon Net
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