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6×8 oil on canvas panel Yes this is a re-paint from my painting of 11/08/07. This one has bothered me since I first posted it, and being short of time to paint today I decided to see what I could do to improve it. Always there’s the struggle. If you have no struggle what you’re making isn’t art. Conversely, of course, just because we struggle doesn’t mean we’re making art. However, the struggle is necessary. My paintings mean enough to me that I want them to be the best I can make them. As time goes by, what I didn’t originally recognize as a problem often stands out as in need of revision. It’s often worthwhile, and satisfying, to make the revisions. These revisions aren’t apparently major, but I feel they’re significant. Can you notice them?

It’s not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. (Albert Camus)

Just knowing what areas one may struggle with takes the demons out of the dark and allows us to get a better handle on them. (Laury Ravenstein)