Cooking Together

12"x9" oil on linen mounted on board (Raymar board)

This painting was beginning to look like it was "more about what was going on outside" & not the 2 figures cooking. And I felt it was getting nit-pickier than I wanted it to be. I wanted to keep the focus on the figures and keep it painterly. So I really had to dig a bit....now I'm closer to that goal! So I'll percolate on this & see if I'm really done...or where I'd like to tweak it a bit. I'm much happier with this today - now it's in the right direction.