I'm considering my newest painting this morning. It has taken several days, but I feel that I am almost at that completion point. For me this is often an awkward time because for this piece I haven't yet come up with a name. Just as a parent is faced with the awesome responsibility of naming their children, so is an artist with coming up with a title for each and every piece of work. Once you have a name attached it is no longer the "WIP" (work in progress).
I started this piece about three days ago as just a retouch of an older sunset piece that I thought needed a bit more color. I had just seen a sunset sky photograph that showed brilliant colors and using that as my inspiration, very soon it was obvious that my retouch turned into a complete REDO.
Color isn't the only transformation that this painting went through. As a matter of fact, yesterday I even changed the time of day from sunset to sunrise because I decided the top canvas blue is so dark that it really must be a sunrise breaking, forth casting out the darkness. "Casting out the Darkness" might be a good name for this piece or perhaps "Breaking Dawn" or "A Blaze in His Glory". One thing I know, is that a name is very important and this one has to have a strong name to match the strong colors used in this 24 x 24 piece.
