Calligraphers soon discover “Old English” letter forms and love to write them, but one actually wants to read Old English. I fight against the same phenomenon in my art. Sometimes it is just too much fun to over work a composition and thereby ruin it. An example: I sketch painted Leah. Then I ended up working the life out of  it on the way to achieving the original plan.

It’s always a risk and I have to be vigilant to see when the original objective for a painting is less desireable than a point along the way.

“Less”, as they say, “is more.”