When my painting is going well I don’t want to do anything as mundane as change a CD so I just press PLAY again. I am just grateful I didn’t have my Barry Manalow CD playing. I am wrestling with this painting, it is bending to my will but it is fighting me. One thing landscape painters have to contend with is a lack of a central focal point. This is one issue I have to compensate in some way in order to give the painting some structure and stability. I have been looking a lot at the landscapes of Edward Burra and John Nash, this painting seems to be a mutant marriage of both, and I am quite happy with that.
Simonside Hills seen from Cartington. Day 5