I’m horrible for starting them and never finishing. I wanted to get this done very much. The goal of it was to paint a picture I could stare at for a very long time and not think about. That and to not use much colour. Yes there is colour, but usually my paintings scream RGB and it makes me sick. I really need to take classes. This is a little closer to what I want to do. Must practice more.

This painting last was started last summer - only the background and windows. It took this summer’s passing to “inspire” me to add the bottle. A few days later I decided the finishing touch would be a wine coloured stain, Ralph Steadman style, around the bottom. I just finished reading Steadman’s Doodaa and have been thinking about his illustrations a lot. I love their sketchiness and appreciate them even more now because it is hard to create something in messy abandon without making it look forced. Maybe I should have finished it drunk. That seems to be the style of Doodaa’s Gavin Twinge. But then it may have become overdone…I wouldn’t know when to stop painting. But then maybe that holding back is just what makes it look forced.