Monday, 25 January 2010 - 4:55 PM EST

I used to.

I worked for most of my teenage and a few of my adult years at my father's powder coating shop. Finish was everything and I was put in charge of very finicky jobs like clear-coating chrome and gold plated objects.

I drew on this when I first started painting but was unable to mimick machine-assisted finish with my hands and was unwilling to drag dayjob techniques into night job practices.

It was claimed in a recent video that I love unfinished edges and mistakes, and that's far from the truth. Those years powder coating just made it mean something different.

Monday, 25 January 2010 - 7:52 PM EST

Great anecdote!

I guess I think there's an appropriate level of finish for each unique object.

The one thing I hate is if stretched paintings aren't framed but the artist has paid no attention whatsoever to the edges of the painting. Personal pet peave. Can't stand it.