This is a piece I just finished the other day, it's called "Mantra 1". It's 12 5/8"x 18" in size and oil on masonite. This was an extremely different type of painting that I was used to doing. I hadn't painted in a while, and was feeling that itch, so I just took a piece of masonite I had lying around, coated it with matte medium, and just started painting a springbok antler I own. No drawing, just paint. I can't think of the last time I did that, possibly never. It came out looking pretty good, and I then started turning the painting into, what I thought was a cool concept. A couple days later I looked at it after a particularly hard day at the workplace. I realized why I was in such a bad mood, the painting I had been staring at for the past few days was awful. It was really stupid. I was taking the life out of the antler that I had so lovingly painted. So I took up a mixture of burnt umber, ultramarine, payne's grey, and alizarin, a
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