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What eleven months on one canvas taught me about finishing

Thomas Gainsborough, “Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)”, (1787). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain (CC0).

IE by intendle Editors Jul 30, 2026 · 1 min read

A painting is finished when you stop being able to improve it, not when you stop wanting to. Those are different days, usually weeks apart, and the gap between them is where most of the work actually happens.

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