Some paintings know from the very beginning what they want to be.
And there are those that hide their intentions for a long time.
This one belonged to the second group.
Such paintings have to be waited out. I come back to them after a few days, sometimes after a few weeks, and it usually turns out that in the meantime they have settled themselves.
I do not plan them to the end. I lay down colour, look at what comes of it, and only then decide about the next layer. Impasto allows that — the paint holds the mark, so nothing is lost.
Below are two stages of this work. I record them, because a photograph does not show how much movement of the hand there is in it.
