My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
When I begin, theoretically and practically I can smear anything I want on the canvas. Then there's a condition I have to react to, by changing it or destroying it.
Beginnings are always messy.
I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.
Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.