My students hear me say it often; NBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!; "Not Beautiful Enough"; it doesn't mean a bad painting, it means a painting that is as yet not done; lacking as it does that little something so unique that only YOU can think of it...we (the critique/viewers) can't anticipate what that may be, but when we see it we love it and it finishes the painting making it " beautiful enough" You will come to this "finish " in the painting's own time; which means you may have to be patient and wait...or try 20 of the wrong things til you find it at last
