as opposed to painting what you see. You would think the two are the same, and for some people they are, but for most painters they are not. Its funny, but after painting and looking at art for decades, my assessment of my own work in progress is often ‘it doesn’t look right?’. That’s the feeling I have had for the last few days about this painting, and it was to do with the space, especially the far distant hills and the lie of the land in that area. I have adjusted it and don’t have the same doubts now. What keeps me interested in the landscape subject is this struggle to make the landscape bend to my will in order to make a good painting, I’d like to say ‘great’, but that may never happen, that’s what keeps me going.
Evening in the Coquetdale Valley. Day 6