Untitled - peasant girl

[Kimberly Dow]

Originally Posted by Jeff Fuchs

Don't re-work the painting based on what an amateur on the internet told you. If you agree with my opinion, then keep the concept in mind when you do your next painting. Re-working paintings is scary and risky. I'd hate to see it get messed up.

Thanks Jeff, but I agreed with you so I did do a sort of glaze. It's in the Unveilings if you want to look. If I didn't agree with you I would not have changed it. I think amateurs as well as professionals can critique and give useful comments. My husband for example is dead-on with his critiques, yet he can't paint a thing. You don't have to be a painter to be able to see.

About re-working paintings - I used to be scared to death of it, but not anymore. There was this fear that I would make it worse or what if I can't get it back again? I just over came it by realizing it wasn't an accident that I got it right in the first place so I can do it again and better each time.