Paint it Again, Sam
The famous but oft-misquoted line from Casablanca, "Play it again, Sam", in fact goes like this: "You played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it." I bring this up simply because if you substitute "paint it" for "play it", you arrive at a scenario I've found myself in a couple of times. Twice now I've had instances where somebody has seen a previous sold painting of mine and asked me if I'd consider painting it again. In both cases my reaction has been "Sure, why not?" (not to be crass, but financial incentives routinely trump artistic interests). Besides, it seems like a straightforward enough task...I mean, I've already been through the exercise once. No fuss or thought required to walk that blazed path again, right? Except it's not that easy, funnily enough. In the case of the first piece, it was recreating a work that was fairly old and from a more experimental phase of my career. Here's th...