This painting is packed with more goodness than a Breughel. Thank god I am not a figure painter, I don’t think I could tolerate the tedium, I would bodge it and do a Lowry. I seem to be drawn into the detail and then pay the price of spending days painting it. The compensation is that it is going well and so there is a reward. I can now picture the finish line but its like a mountaineer staring at a distant peak.
The Thames from Richmond Hill. Day 9