I’ve been painting madly and have scratched and scrabbled to collect bits of time as well as glorious full days to paint, scrape, layer, rub, sand, and, rarely, varnish a piece because (ha!) it’s actually done. Perhaps I’m deluded in my thinking, but to me, paintings always become better with more layers. Maybe it was true - especially as a realistic landscape painter - that I could “lick a painting to death” as a friend used to say…but working in loose abstraction seems only to benefit from layering more and more.
And how blissful it is to me to take a knife-painted abstract which is languishing in a pile, and place loosely impressionistic landscape details on top of it. Lately, when I do this, it’s to place traffic scenes on top of the knife painting, as in the example above.
Here’s hoping you have a Spring of new inspiration and creativity, embracing layers in your art and in your life.