What picture/painting have you regretted not making?

[Tiffers]

There is a field I pass most days on my way to work, its a small field, a typical english field. It slants up a gentle hill and is bordered in the top right hand corner by some horse chestnut trees and an evergreen kind of hedge across the top.

It was towards the end of November in 2002 when I went past the field on my motorbike and I had to stop and take in the scene.

The field had been freshly ploughed and the soil was rich and dark, shaded up and down the land by the ploughing stripes. The trees were a fantastic shade of gold with russets and gingery highlights. The vivid green hedge was starkly set against the brilliant early morning blue of the sky.

I wished on that day that I had a camera with me but of course I hadnt so I promised myself I would go back the following day, or the day after to take the photo.

Of course, something always happens to prevent these promises from being fulfilled and in my case I was forcibly restrained from doing so by a small family hatchback :ssad:

I keep watching that field, waiting for the colours to be right but even now, 4 years on, the formula hasnt been right. One day though.....it might be :)

What piece of work have you regretted not making?

Tiffers

[nigel_hell]

I've regretted not having my camera ready for many moments of my life. But the nice thing about memory is the image is always just as you saw it, sometimes a photo ruins the moment because it just doesn't do the scene justice. So I usually just snap the photo w/ my brain in a moment like that and get high on the fumes of the vision for years to come.

Many of my photos that do not fit a certain series of my work are archived and never seen again. Most moments like the one described above would fall under that category for me as an artist. I shoot sometimes about a thousand images a week and I treasure the ones I have stored in my memory bank the most because they are mine alone and will never be subjected to jurrying, viewers, or the unkindness the camera lens can sometimes yield.

[Rozz]

I work right by NYC. I regret not getting pics of the Trade Towers when they were on fire. At the time it seemed so disrespectful, & cold hearted. Plus we were all in awe just watching them burn. I was too upset to even think about snapping a few. But I look back now & I kick my self for not gettin at least one. For memory sake. I look at my Portfolio, & I have a great shot of the twins, & wish I had the one I could've gotten on the 11th. I could've made a three photo series. One with them Fine, one with them "damaged", & one of the area where they once stood. Is that bad?

[Pyro]

I regret not taking so many pictures, I regret not taking more pictures of many subjects or taking the time to setup a tripod to get a better shot and there's been times where I regret not having a camera with me.

One time that springs to mind was when I was on my way to a friends, I walked past a wall, one half of the wall was painted white and the other was black, on the black half there was a cute little white kitten and on the white half there was a black cat, other than the cats and the walls it wouldn't have been a very interesting shot, but I would have really liked to see how the ying yang thing with the cats and the wall would have turned out :ssad:

[Umberto]

I most horribly regret not having a camera and using it when I lived in Austin and Stevie Ray Vaughn was getting his start.

I could have had countless photos of his first gigs at little dives in Austin, with Triple Threat and Blackbyrd.
But especially candid pics of him sitting around his first funky little Austin house, he lived with a buddy of mine. Pictures of him in a little bar on Congress Ave right after he hit it big, and jamming onstage that same day when there were maybe 10 people in the bar.

Yeah hindsight is a bitch.

[laf&grin]

Regret is a fact of life for me. I have many pictures/paintings I regret for not making and many more I wish I had never attempted. The closet is packed. For "G's" sake what was I thinking? Show me your worst, because I'm sure I can best you any day!

[ded i]

Regrets are futile ... but I have many. Painting my family is one of them.

[CUT'N'PAINT]

I always regret not having finished the one I'm working on now. And when I realize that I'm almost finished it, I start planning the next one so that I won't be regretting not finishing that one for so long.
:banghead:

:clock:

[Tiffers]

I always regret not having finished the one I'm working on now. And when I realize that I'm almost finished it, I start planning the next one so that I won't be regretting not finishing that one for so long.
:banghead:

:clock:

Do you find though that the planning of the next one takes away from the sense of accomplishment on finishing the last one?

Tiffers

[Tiffers]

Regrets are futile ... but I have many. Painting my family is one of them.

Mmm, I think I can go with that one. I regret not photographing my folks. Now they are no longer here I feel that quite intensely.

Tiffers

[silenthunterstudios]

This might sound cheesy, but when I was in high school, one of my friends asked me to draw her. It was during some type of science class video, and I had enough light from outside. Anyway, I wasn't confident in my artistic abilities, and after a few tries, gave up on it, and didn't really notice her dismay until sometime later when I put two and two together thinking about it. After she moved away, I found out she had a crush on me (I have to post a pic of myself in high school, I wasn't always a roly poly:devilzide ). There are many different vistas and people I'd like to draw/paint even sculpt, but thats the only one I pretty much regret.

[Tiffers]

Thats not cheesy, its really sweet :)

Thanks for sharing it :)

Tiffers

[CUT'N'PAINT]

Do you find though that the planning of the next one takes away from the sense of accomplishment on finishing the last one?

Tiffers

No. I know if I think it's good, and even if I'm busy there is always time to look back at what I've done. What does take away something (and maybe it's not a sense of accomplishment but a sense of self-worth that is affected) is if I am sitting there looking at what I've done, and not knowing what I'm going to do next. ("What, that's all you have-- nothing else?") And we only have so much time to do what we can. I hate thinking of all the things I will never do.
:crymeariv

[ded i]

No. I know if I think it's good, and even if I'm busy there is always time to look back at what I've done. What does take away something (and maybe it's not a sense of accomplishment but a sense of self-worth that is affected) is if I am sitting there looking at what I've done, and not knowing what I'm going to do next. ("What, that's all you have-- nothing else?") And we only have so much time to do what we can. I hate thinking of all the things I will never do.
:crymeariv

Amazing! You're more prolific than any other artist I know! Bless him - the man never stops!

I think about that, but then I decide I want to watch a movie ... :ropeman:

[ded i]

This might sound cheesy, but when I was in high school, one of my friends asked me to draw her. It was during some type of science class video, and I had enough light from outside. Anyway, I wasn't confident in my artistic abilities, and after a few tries, gave up on it, and didn't really notice her dismay until sometime later when I put two and two together thinking about it. After she moved away, I found out she had a crush on me (I have to post a pic of myself in high school, I wasn't always a roly poly:devilzide ). There are many different vistas and people I'd like to draw/paint even sculpt, but thats the only one I pretty much regret.

I thank that's pretty sweet SHS! :spin: