Simple but brillant

This is Heck, a great illustrative artist. Some of you may be looking at this and thinking, "I could do that!" Unlikely.

I bought a calendar full of Heck drawings and I had a hard time deciding which one I would feature in this blog. One challenge of every artist, I imagine, is not overworking your piece. You tweak here and there and before you know it you've overdone it. Sometimes you can't undo all the damage. I wonder if Heck has this problem. In another imagine two birds sit on a telephone wire. Very simple work but you can't help but think their in love or some other silly scenario. Am I looking at the final piece after several overworked and overdone creations lie crumpled on the floor? I hope so, that would make me feel better.

It is said that artists and writers never actually finish a book or a painting, they simply abandon the project. I have indeed abandoned many paintings only to later see I quit at the perfect moment.