With experience you can tell when your painting is dying and heading towards a disappointing conclusion. There are several ways to revive it. Part of the solution this time was to take a few days off and look at it with fresh eyes. Its curious but once you can start opening up the painting you go from a position of not knowing what to change to wanting to change almost everything, and more importantly knowing how to do it. This painting is jumping again.
Simonside Hills seen from Cartington. Day 4