A brief moment of satisfaction when you are sat on your comfortable studio chair scanning your painting for weak areas to resolve, and you can’t find any. And even rarer still when you are satisfied with the conclusion and all the decisions that were made. It won’t last long, there is always the next painting. I am especially pleased, for some reason, with the large farmhouse on the right. As soon as you put a building in a landscape it takes too much attention, but this sits quietly off to the side. Next painting I have already decided on, but I have an urge to paint the classic’ View of the Thames from Richmond Hill’. I saw a rather good photo of this scene.
View, Northumberland