Monday's painting...

... Okay, I started last night before I went to bed.

I did exactly the same as yesterday.
But waited for each layer to dry totally before I did another one on top of the dry layer.

So, this is time consuming but not in the way you are waiting around in this instance. Each paint layer needs to be dry before proceeding...

So first layer on both papers at 8 pm.

Cat woke me at 9:55 pm. He wanted accompanying to his cat tray in the bathroom...really? So I did the next layer. Repeated the same painting on top.

Cat woke me at 1am with his whiskers all over my face. I wanted the bathroom, and so I did the next layer on both pieces of paper. Exactly the same again. That is doing the blue lines and shading, and spraying with the water mister.

3am and cat is patting my face with his paw. He wants the bathroom. But refuses to use the cat tray (he won't use the cat tray for No 2's). He takes me to the kitchen and blocked cat flap. I open the door, and he looks at me, the way he does when he wants me to accompany him...So we both go into my overgrown front garden and he is scratching around, performs his toilet and gets back in the bungalow before I do...So I do next layer on both pieces of paper. Same as before.

6:30 am cat is gently patting my face with his paw and wakes me up. He wants to be let out. So I open kitchen door, and lock it straight away because I need the bathroom as well. It is just about daylight now, so he can sort this out on his own...I come back to kitchen, he has come back in through cat flap (but still won't go out of it. I make a coffee. Look at paintings. Top one is finished. Bottom one on the index card is not an intense colour as usual. Why? Then I realise I have painted on the 'wrong' side...the absorbent side. The other side of the index paper is more shiny. So, I do the painting one more time on the index card. And then at the top of the index card, where the leaves are on the trees I sprinkle some of that granulation liquid. It doesn't seem to have much effect. I've not used it before, I don't know how you are meant to use it.

I took the photo while the index card was still wet. It has dried a bit now and there is shading in the leaves on the trees.

So here is your lesson for today on how to spend up to 10 and a half hours on a painting....but in reality the actual painting time for both paintings was less than 5 minutes! It is the essential drying time between the layers that takes the time...