After letting it drip more and then getting distracted for a day or so, the top layer of the painting finally starting forming a skin, and thereby the drips stopping and the top layer beginning to dry.
One of the things about this process is that not every painting always turns out exactly perfectly the way I hoped or planned it would…including this one.
The night after the pop-up plein-air demonstration, I ended up being so drained that night that I didn’t touch up the drips as much as I should have. Then on Sunday, we ended up having a cookout that demanded much more work on my part than I had anticipated, and therefore I wasn’t able to quite revisit the surface of the painting as planned. The texture of this particular painting ended up being a lot rougher than the smooth, glossy surface that I achieved in my other paintings.
Now I am going to more carefully plan out and block out any scheduling in the first 48 hours of an Abstracted Rainy Moment painting that would keep me from giving it the intense focus that it needs to achieve the surface I hope aim to achieve. |