Keeping art journals -- and I mean it literally -- actually KEEPING art journals and sketchbooks, physically, for ever! I have shelves and boxes filled with sketchbooks and journals and loose sketches and paintings on paper. Over the years I have sold many of my paintings and given even more away to family and friends -- I'm very rarely sentimental over a painting (although I must confess that I DO have a few favourites that I'm not willing to part with!), because anything that I've painted before I can re-create again, right? Sometimes not as good as the original, but who's going to notice? Right? And yet, I have all these sketchbooks that I just seem incapable of dumping in a dustbin.
I really don't know what it is about a particular painting that gives one an attachment to it, because over the years I have found many times that when I really am pleased with and like a painting I've done, nobody else enthuses over it much. And often when I cringe over a particular painting I've done, I have people raving about it and clamouring to buy it.
Obviously the only conclusion one can come to is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. :)
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