I've been working hard to get back on schedule with my output of artwork. So as of late last night I signed the painting and finished. The painting is a little bit of how I've been feeling, trying to keep focused on the tasks at hand.
There is a little story behind this painting. In fact, that story is another painting. Yes, under this painting is another painting that I never completed, one that eventually, I had to admit, I would never complete because I lost interest. So, I painted over it. The painting beneath, ended up contributing to the one that replaced it.
I have done this a number of times with my own canvases and that of ones rejected by other artists. The process is fun; giving new life to something that was destined for the scrap heap.
So in another way, the figure in the painting is like a celebrity shielding their private lives from prying eyes. You only get to get a glimpse, a hint of what is behind the thing that obscures it.
Maybe someday the painting will be x-rayed and the former painting will be discovered, but likely not. Only I will know the secret of what lies behind.
"Out of My Face", Leo Plaw, 30 x 24cm, oil on canvas
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