Comments on: This Painting Was Finished Before I Knew It! https://www.howtopastel.com/2014/04/this-painting-was-finished/ Info, opinion, and training on how to pastel with artist Gail Sibley BFA, MA Fri, 03 Dec 2021 00:11:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Gail https://www.howtopastel.com/2014/04/this-painting-was-finished/#comment-559 Mon, 20 Jul 2015 18:50:11 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=1071#comment-559 In reply to Sandi Graham.

You are sooooooo right Sandi! The longer a piece stays on the easel, the more likely we are to pick away at it. Best to put it away then after some time, have a look. If all seems well, it’s done.

Glad you like the painting 🙂

]]> By: Sandi Graham https://www.howtopastel.com/2014/04/this-painting-was-finished/#comment-554 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:39:14 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=1071#comment-554 Often my paintings are finished before I am ready to let them go.
I know if I leave them on the easel too long I risk the chance of over working them.
With time, unless it is a failure to start, I eventually decide to get it off the easel and away from my pastel pallet .
Thanks for the demo and I love the painting.
Sandi

]]> By: deb jedynak https://www.howtopastel.com/2014/04/this-painting-was-finished/#comment-129 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:14:07 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?p=1071#comment-129 Gail, loved the recent abstract and I discovered after taking Casey Klahn’s workshop that it’s okay to rework a painting. I never felt quite satisfied when thinking I “finished” a piece until I asked to display some art in my office building with three days notice! I took out all the pieces I wanted to mat and frame and then proceeded to do something else to each one before I framed them…be it add more color, or tone down too much color, change the values, etc. Then I was satisfied!

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