Flight Hours

“Flight Hours.” A sketch, oil on cradled board 8x10”.
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Most of the time I’m working out a painting, a good idea often starts with an idea that isn’t. So you work it. You fix it or change it and suddenly you land on an idea that’s workable.
You can always edit. You can always cancel a painting and not let it out if it’s bad.
But you’ll never get anywhere if you hadn’t first started when it was weak and anemic and small.
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Two things are requisite for being a painter: looking a lot, and painting a lot. There aren’t any workarounds I’m aware of, sorry. In painting, flight hours really do count.
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I still haven’t decided whether this bird is coming or going, today he stays out of the trash, though.