Conánn FitzPatrick

Update: Written in early 2004 this page is painfully out of date. Definitely not doing enough painting.

This is a new one to me... I just got up mid sentence, picked up a cloth and some turps, and whipped away the work I did yesterday on a painting. It had been bothering me but I needed time to decide what it was about it that I did not like and what the solution would be. In the process I was able to burn off some frustration and energy but the painting looks as good now as it did earlier the day before I made the ugly choice.

That's the beauty of working in oil it forgives absolutely and without question. It's the only medium I have worked with that has let me know from the outset that I have absolutely no control over it and I may as well get used to it now and get on with making pictures. The only limitation within oil painting is me! If it looks wrong? My fault! Taking too long? That would be me. I can't blame the machine, the operating system or the company, there are several hundred years of examples to prove to me that I just need to figure out how to get it done.