Scraping and reworking

To ease my frustration with the work I have been producing, I tell myself that at least I can see when I am making bad art - art that doesn't have any reason for being, and is badly painted.

I liked the background on this piece. I used a stencil with copper encaustic paint and a shellac burn over the stencil, but the figure was horrible.

So, the figure had to go today.

first scraping

more scraping

starting the new figure