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Leonardo da Vinci once said "Art is never finished, only abandoned". I agree with this because you can keep picking at the things you don't like about your art until you die. It can become a vicious cycle that you'll never get out of. I think it's best to make note of these "mistakes" and keep it in mind when you begin you're next piece. The best you can hope for is to learn from past experience and move forward.

Having said all this, I'm not sure if this piece is done. I feel as though it's missing something yet I can't figure out what it is. That's the most frustrating part of the creative process. Outside of the annoyance of starting something new is finishing it. How do we know when art is done? With other pieces it was just a feeling in my stomach of not being able to go any further with it. In this case however, I feel like there are a couple more steps I can take but I'm blind to them.

Perhaps I've been staring at it too much. Andy Warhol once said "...if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning". So I shall leave it here and go about my business. We'll see what happens.