The Artistic Urge from Prehistory to the Present.

I have finally finished this painting, I put two of the square canvases I made together, one was a canvas that I was having no success with. These canvases have oil paint, acrylic, gloss and emulsion as well as coloured sand and aluminium shavings. The top picture is a close up of this texture. They now remind me of an underwater world, or under the sea specifically.  My paintings seem to be best in their fresh and early stages. If I over work them then I have to keep going until they come back to some kind of resolution. This is a very stressful process which is reflected in the layers of paint. I think I put too much pressure on myself to come up with some amazing artworks for my end of degree show and in the process I feel I have lost the space and the marks which made my early paintings successful. I intend to make another large canvas and want to resist the urge to over paint it. I really enjoy the first stages of painting and I want to stop before it becomes such an emotionally intense practice.