Working Artist Findings

While getting started today on a 24x30inch painting, I was greatly disappointed with the loose canvas. To save time, I buy high quality canvases. However, as I started with the under painting today, I found the canvas to be very floppy.   What do you do?   Return the used canvas, throw it out, paint anyways and look like you use cheap materials?

Well Lacking quality is never an option for me. Returning the canvas seemed like such a hassle and throwing the canvas out was not an option either.

My solution was to gesso the back side of the canvas.... Although I started with creating x's all over... I did end up putting gesso on the entire back side.  That did the trick and tightened the canvas right up leaving the perfect sound the canvas makes when you knock on it.

Now my canvas is useable, good quality and the painting can be completed.

Moving Art Foward

Art is alive, Art is Awesome. Art Careers are very much a viable option. One of the toughest obstacles is to look past is criticism and to keep moving forward. Sometimes those obstacles are from those who are closest to you. There is no right or wrong way to get to your goal. Everyone's story is different. What matters is that you are going for what matters to you. You are finding that BURNING DESIRE with in, just won't go out and you just, simply need to go for it.

The path is not an easy path. Anything worth great satisfaction doesn't come easy. You need to work for it. Any of the great artists of the past and present come to down to a common theme. WORK. 

What is your passion?  What motivates you?  What would you like to see more of on my blog?


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