Small copper pot with pins

This is a miniature pot that is from India, I believe. I have painted it twice before. I picked it up to consider using it as a subject last night, then thought I might like to use it on its side, and when I turned it, some pins slid out (who knows why they were stored there). I thought that was just perfect, and didn't move a single pin, just righted the little copper vessel and painted.

You know how in every painting, there's a point where you think there's no way the painting is going to work...well, this time it was more like, throughout the first 90% of the painting time, I was pretty sure it wasn't going to work at all. I then got truly frustrated and figured what the heck, it's not working anyway, and kind of lightly but somewhat wildly swiped at the pins and top edges of the vessel, and boom!, all of a sudden it was clear that the whole thing would pull together. Sometimes it pays to get so frustrated that you start doing radical things, like scraping part of it, or swiping at part of it, or otherwise mutilating it. Good things may be born of this frustration/desperation.

$115.00 - Small copper pot with pins (Ready to Frame)

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