Salvaging

This painting was done at the workshop this past weekend and it started life as a 16x20 and ended up a mere 12x12. The focus was to work large, quickly and deliberately. When all was said and done I was disgusted with the painting because I had messed up on the perspective of the bucket. I had chalked this one up to experience and was going to toss it but then I got to looking at it more. I began to realize that it was salvageable. Simply cropping the painting made me like it for the first time since the initial brush strokes. Sitting on paintings for a while gives them a second chance and some times that's all they need.