A full day painting Sappho (which may not be the final title). It was difficult to complete this in time so the paint was a little thicker and the strokes looser; this is also a factor when improvising rather than painting from a plan. Clouds I can comfortably improvise, but rocks are a little more difficult, they require form, a form I must model to some degree. Sea waves are more like clouds, but details are painted dark on light whereas clouds are white on dark (wet on wet), so require different preparation.
Almost everything in the painting was improvised apart from the figure. The face was, however, but I really needed a model for this. I had a model for the body but its face was inadequate.
