Frustration (part 2)

The following was the 2nd part of a blog post which appeared on my previous website, November 22, 2016… I am sharing it with you…
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As I was saying in part 1, when listing my artwork on eBay, I usually put a blurb in here about the painting I'm offering on eBay - but I'm just going to get a load off my mind and put that here instead

Frustration (part 1)

The following was a blog post which appeared on my previous website, November 22, 2016… I am sharing it with you… but for me the big question is, have things changed?
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Time is an unforgiving taskmaster, a check spent that may not return the investment you anticipated, a gamble that sucks out rather than pours in reward. So some find

Fred's Dog

About 4 years ago (2020) I suffered a stroke. It was a TIA resulting from a head trauma. It took a few weeks to recover. I am seriously fortunate to be fully recovered and functioning as good after the event than before.

A few weeks before this, I had begun a painting of a beautiful beast of a dog for my wife's brother, Fred. His dog is a Bernese Mountain Dog. It is an

You Might Never Know

Most every painting I've been involved with, at some point… goes through an ugly stage. Its that place where you are looking at the work, maybe hours have already passed, and that excitement, hope, vision and inertia that you started with, is waining.

Why?

What you see in front of you has moved out of that honeymoon stage where you were just a little while before…