How do you cope with a bad painting day?

[Kimber Scott]

Originally Posted by Cindy Procious

Sure. It's called hurrying to meet a deadline.

Slow down. Be deliberate with every stroke. Be sure to back up and check what you've done, and think about what you're going to do next.

(Any chance you'll show us the gill-faced painting? )

Deliberation... what a concept! You're right. I was hurrying and I wasn't thinking - at all. I was on auto-pilot. If I had been in a plane, they'd be picking my body parts up from around the Himalayas about now.

And, no, you can't see gill-face. She's gone. I spent 6 hours on her yesterday. She is still in rough shape, but she can't breathe under water anymore!

Patricia, Thanks for the advice. It makes a lot of sense.

Heidi, too bad we don't know when we're headed for disaster before we get there. If we did, we could call somebody to talk us down, or something - some kind of "Artists in Crisis" hotline. I can see it now, a man with a bullhorn yelling, "Put the brush down! Step away from the canvas! (Or, clay...) Everything's going to be alright." Instead it's like spontaneous human combustion, before we know what happened, our work is a pile of ashes and so are we. Oh well... working through the forensics seems to be the only way to try to avoid disaster in the future.