In the past I have been in a frustrating position where 90% of the painting was working well but I could never find a solution for that annoying 10% and the picture would be given its last rites and pronounced a failure. In the case of this picture it was the sky, despite yesterdays rendition being fairly true to the photograph it just didn’t work for me. Today it got a good thrashing and now it is in a much better state. I think the picture is almost finished.
Late Spring, Northumberland. Day 5