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Finishing up 50 unfinished paintings!

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Wow, how to finish so many? This is one of the stacks that finally has gotten finished and listed: You can  click here to see it on my ebay store . This painting is one of many which are getting sorted and finished this summer. It's a view of the Oregon coast (thanks for the inspiration, mom!). I'm obsessed with painting, not so much with figuring out what the heck to do with the piles of paintings which result. It took some intervention from my daughter to start to deal with the stacks. So I'm finishing them, she's dealing with them. ----------- If you're an artist like me and have a hard time facing how to finish a painting, maybe you can try some of the things which seem to help me: Ask yourself: should I add some contrasting colors for more shadows or reflected light? On a peach or yellow tree or flower, this might be petals or boughs on the shaded side of the object which can have beautiful plums or lavenders blended in.  On the blue shaded s