can't leave well enough alone

It's been a while since I've painted, with the holidays and all. Very difficult to get going again. To make matters worse, instead of just easing back into things, like maybe starting a couple of loosening up exercises, I just decided to slap on a bunch of paint on the green painting, as if by some miracle, that would produce a finished work.

Well, it's all a process, isn't it.

I mixed up a bunch of "white" (actually it had a lot of ochre and gloss medium and some pthalo blue). I didn't like the reddish brown color I had put on the last time. There was too much of that color on the upper left corner and it started to look very much like a Christmas painting-- lots of green and red. So I decided I would basically cover up most of that reddish brown color.


The glossiness and translucency of the white came out pretty well. So it wasn't a completely failed experiment. (Plus, I erased that distracting image which I kept seeing in the center of the painting.)








In fact, I liked it quite a lot, so I rather impulsively painted on the "finished" blue and orange painting which is hanging above the mantel in our living room!
I actually think it is improved. (the one on the right)