did you ever "finish" a painting...

[Rising Phoenix]

and something is not quite right, but you don't know what it is. It buts the hell out of me. I've been staring at one I did yesterday and don't know what it is missing yet.

[TheHelplessLlama]

1. Of course...

who doesn't do that?

I only have 2 or 3 paintings that I would really say are finished... and even then, "finished" tends to mean "trying to improve it anymore would just screw up something else."

[Desertrose]

2. Do you ever turn it upside down or

look at it in the mirror?
Sometimes that helps me see the area or thing that doesn't quite fit.

when I saw your title about ever finishing a painting...I was gonna say yeah, as long as I don't look at it again ...otherwise I see one more thing I could change :evilgrin:

[Heidi]

3. Sometimes it's good to walk away from it for a while.

This almost always gives me a more accurate idea of what's "off" in one of my paintings. :hi:

[mopinko]

4. knowing when you are done

is the hardest part. i heard somewhere that artists have snuck into the louvre to add one more little touch to a painting. may be apocryphal, but i can see doing it.
i'm pretty good, tho. once i sign it, i'm done. i just hate it, is all.

[Rising Phoenix]

5. finally finished it

ended up painting over the whole thing. It was just sitting there mocking me, so now its someting entirely new and I love it and it expresses what I was actually feeling. yeah!

[LunaSea]

6. Someone once said...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.