It is very frustrating when things conspire against me to keep me away from the paintings and makes it very difficult to get back into a painting.
The two was working on from old sketches are still being worked on in my usual layer by layer approach which suits the small blocks of time that I usually have available. But yesterday I had a whole day free to paint and decided to retry one of them on a larger scale and in a looser way, with lots of paint and large brushes.
It is oil on board and is 16 x 16". I was aiming to finish it in one session, but I had so much paint on it and it got so wet that I have to leave it to dry enough for additionall touches, particularly in the sky area. Even today it is too wet!
