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6×8 oil on canvas Phew! We’ve had a house full of people for awhile, and today was my first chance to get back to painting. My wife handed me this paperweight she recently received, and said “Why don’t you paint this?” I said, “Okay, thanks.”, and placed it in my set-up box. I had no idea what I was getting into. Talk about a puzzle of values and structure! I scraped this down twice trying to figure out what I was doing! It crossed my mind more than once to scrap rather than scrape, but it would have bothered me to leave it undone. So, for better or for worse, here it is. I can tell you it was an excellent workout for observation. The subject forced me to observe in greater detail, and I feel like I’ve done my observing push-ups for today.

About two-thirds of the effort that goes towards the execution of a painting can, I am sure, be attributed to observation. (Lionel Aggett)

Extreme observation serves artists very well - perhaps it is the best teacher. (Cynde Roof)