Why does it always have to be a struggle?. Wouldn’t it be better to be a YouTube content creator who seems to make their ‘art’ effortlessly than a Frank Aurebach who scrapes off his days work day after day until he finally arrives at an image that doesn’t disappoint? Maybe their is some value in the struggle, I am always suspicious of an image that arrives too quickly. With the struggle comes a worked quality and a richness and subtlety to the paint which is some compensation. Anyway, this painting has eventually turned out the way I had imagined, and there is satisfaction in that. This painting is finished.
A forest, Northumberland