Repurposed & Wipe-Out

I have been saving little piles of paint after being out painting.

The way I have been saving them is to put them on the small palette that hooks to the side of my box, and storing it in the box with a lot of tape.

This is really not a good solution.

So I was thinking... I need something small and flat with a lid.

And i dug through the recesses of my tupperware drawer and found....this.......

Daya's old sandwich container!

That will work!

So I packed Dora & Boots into the last little bit of space in my backpack and went painting before the last Move|NYC show.

There is a park near City Hall and Gibney, where Move is located, with a nice fountain.

So I went there.

I got there at about 11:45- LATE! and I had a hard stop at 1:30.

I started painting,

Someone sent me a text and I looked at it and saw it was 12;30 already....!!!
One hour left! Not good, I had barely started.  So I set a timer and then could not think about anything else.

I started rushing.

I started stressing.

I started getting sloppy.

For the next half hour.

And then I had a moment where I realized the best thing to do was STOP and call it a wipe.

This is not a painting I can do in under 2 hours. (I bet Thor could tho!)

I think I need about 3 1/2 hours for this painting.

Ken Goshen talked a lot about failure in his live class last Tuesday, and how our failures are our best friends and best learning moments. 

That fountain water is truly a challenge and I am mulling it over, because I need to go back and do this painting again. I should have taken a picture of the fountain from the painting spot but I guess it doesn't matter.

Here is the painting before I wiped down the panel.

8x10

It's not even halfway done and not worth continuing.

And I also wanted to get a wider view, which for some reason I really struggle with- so I'm not thrilled about the composition.  If I can do Times Square I can do this.  I'll get it next time.

And I will be thinking about fountain water all week.