Revisiting and revising

by Paul Burmeister

The two images below are evidence of two patterns of my creative interest. They are scans of the same painting, which revisits a site, or a remembered poetic, from many years ago. The image of the left is of the painting when I first thought it was “finished,” about a month ago. The image on the right, showing subtle modifications of tone and drawing, is of how the painting looks today. I revise almost all of my images, and I frequently revisit older images.