I want to keep experimenting with each daily painting and not have a set formula I stick to. So today I tried out 3 background colours (painting them in), a radical red, yellow and the one you see. The muted colour seamed to work better and not compete with the blue jug.
Every painting seams to go through the stage of pain! With thoughts of abandoning or wiping the board clean and starting again. I had that a lot with this painting, until near the end when it came together and I’m relatively happy with it. It does remind me of Greece, the colours, the shape…