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It's hard to tell when a piece is truly done sometimes. I've taken out pieces that I thought were done long in the past and, when examined with fresh eyes, found them incomplete. Sometimes I've been so dissatisfied that I've simply painted over the old image with something completely new. I used to do that a lot back in my student days, when I couldn't afford to buy new canvas all the time. I would paint a piece, show it to my professor for a critique, then turn the canvas over on the stretcher and paint the back for the next one. When both sides were covered, I re-gessoed the canvas and used it again for new work. Once I promised my brother that I would give him a painting of his choice for his birthday. He came to the studio and picked up the one that was on the easel. "But it's not done!", I said. He replied that he'd rather take it immediately than risk my painting over it. And so it remains to this day.
Carol