Burnt Cookies!

Sometimes the role of the artist as self-critic goes neglected in conversations about what is important in the career of being an artist. Yes, we artists are often our worst critics, but we also are the ones most in tune with where we want our work to go and many times we are guilty of presenting work that is in the category of ‘good enough’ or ‘someone may buy it’.

I call these paintings ‘burnt cookies’. You know the ones that are just a little over done on the bottoms – they’re good enough to eat, but they’re not the ones you’d serve special guests or set out at your opening.

My recommendation – if it is toasty on the bottom, scrap it off and recycle the canvas or feed it to the trash.

Comments

[Ellie]

Guilty! I guess we all are. OFten, I end up keeping these things because there was one little place where something wonderful happened, or maybe the painting may be a total failure in achieving what I was after but I learned something important in the failure. Maybe the thing to do with these burnt cookies is cut them off the stretchers and paper the garage wall with them!