before and after

Do you ever feel like a piece of art you make just doesn’t “feel right” after you’ve made it?  A few pieces in this By Its Cover series have felt incomplete or just plain wrong, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on why until a few weeks ago….

 

Below are the before and after shots of a few recent pieces.  Be forewarned: they are totally different!  After pushing through, I feel much more satisfied with the results.  It’s all part of the art-making process I suppose: pain-staking self critique and revision after revision until you can finally say you’ve reconciled the image in your head with the thing you’ve created!

 

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