A Bird in the Hand

Painting over an existing painting.
Why?
Because you don't like the painting anymore.
Because you want to paint but you've run out of canvasses.
Because, just because.

Originally this was a painting with a paper bird collaged to it. As I painted over it, layer after layer, the bird refused to go away. You could see the outline through all the paint. So, instead of obliterating it, I highlighted it.

  Going with the flow.

 


Simplicity is the removal of the useless and the unnecessary--source unknown