putting on the final touches

so I have been looking at this painting I thought was complete but something just didn’t seem right. I stared at this thing for countless hours trying to figure out what was bothering me about it then I saw the issue, the faces on the dancing figures looked flat, like they didn’t have any curves so I mixed some paint and gave them the curves they were missing.

I find it hard sometimes knowing when a painting is complete, there is always something that I think could be changed so I study it until I find what’s bothering me and correct it. this is alot differnt then the blue collar life I lived for so many years. It was easy to know when my job was done, the problem was corrected when the equipment ran. pretty simple compared to painting

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