OLD CANVASES ARE OPPORTUNITIES

A painting I am unhappy with.

I have a lot of canvases that I am just not happy with.  The above one was mostly an experiment in glazing.  I learned a lot from it, so it was not a waste of time.  

Certain paints are too opaque for the glazing techniques.

The first monochrome layer laid down should have had more time invested.

So, I scrumbled some thined titanium white over it.  Not exactly glazing but the strong primary colors were muted. as well as the ivory black at the edges.

This is the begining of a search for form in this unstructured canvas.

After a little drying, but not enough to prevent mixing, added more thin paint layers.  At this point, the concern about not wasting the canvas fades, and I can really do what I intended.   Ask what happens if I do this and find out.

I rotate the canvas and a cat emerges, more like a dream of a cat.  Not intended; but, I have two in the studio, so they will make it into stream of consciousness efforts like this one.

Anyway, I will stop the post here since the feel of the painting has seriously changed.  I will still work on it.   Funny, when you read history a lot of paintings took years to finish.  I wonder why I expect to finish in hours?