Getting Old

Tonight I decided to post this painting up. It is up on my website but I didn't post it up here because at the time of painting it I thought not many people would like it. After sitting on it for a while I've grown to love this painting. I'm going to enter it in a show whenever they come up again. My pictures are not of the best quality. The colors are not the same but they are sort of close. They just don't capture the full depth of the color. It is just a hard thing to explain in words but in real life the paintings just pops. This paintings breaks a guide line that I hear very often from others. Don't paint an object up to the edge! Honestly I think that is one of the things that makes this painting special  to me is lack of caring about guide lines and painting what seemed interesting to me at the time.  A person might look at this and say "hey that's just a tape dispenser" but if you think about it, a tape dispenser is interesting. Look past the aesthetics of the thing and see it, learn its history, see its purpose, and its personal influence on what you've done in your daily life. Tape dispensers are interesting in their own right. I like it, I think others will to if they look at it long enough.