This painting is meant to merge my two homes: Coronado, CA, where I grew up; and Mt. Pleasant in Washington, DC where I currently live. It is no where near finished despite hours of work. It is rather massive in size, which accounts for many of the hours, simply because it takes awhile to put that much paint on a canvas of this size. I am now stuck. I have no idea where to go with this, the sides don't seem to marry easily -- perhaps it is telling me I can't have it both ways? I am tempted to throw shapes on top, like bicycles, cars, planes, clearly out of proportion (imagine a bike taking up a quarter of the painting) just to tie the damn thing together. On top of that whole mess, it is hanging sideways right now due to space constraints, and the peanut gallery informed me "it looks better that way." Ugh. This is why other paintings are so unfinished right now.
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