My Favourite Painting

Sometimes you paint something that you really hate so much you no longer want to see it. And other times you paint something that you are REALLY happy with. This painting has been hanging in my house for about a year and every time I pass it - probably at least a dozen times every day - I  think "that's pretty cool"

BUT - and it's a big but - it didn't start out like that. This was one of those paintings that I struggled with: I struggled with the background, the colours, the paint - in fact everything.

You probably can't tell from the photos, but it has got a lot of paint on it. In fact it has a coating of titanium white - which at one stage covered it all completely. Fortunately, I came to my senses before the white had dried, and hastily removed most of it with a damp cloth, feverishly scraping off the paint.