A while back I was working on a landscape painting. It was mostly a practice painting. Lots of greens, trees, hillsides, with a path wandering through it. I spent a few hours on it. Getting my hands to do what I wanted them to do… and I called it done. I was finished with it. Could some areas be improved on? Sure. However my expectations for it were low since I never intended it to be a masterpiece(in terms of my skill level), just some skill work. I signed it, showed it to my lovely wife, set it on the counter on the kitchen to finish drying, and moved on with my evening.
A while later my daughter walked by, picked it up, looked at it for a moment and said “It’s nice but it doesn’t look finished…”. Ah teenagers, telling it like it is.
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