kale leaves

I thought I was leaving to run a few errands, and was going to quickly fix the stems of the water lilies with a smaller brush and thicker paint. A few hours later I was still working on the painting. Tonal work, whether black and white or color, can be tweaked endlessly. Like some magnet, once you start it is very difficult to stop. It's such a complex interrelated structure that changing one part often forces you to change others.

I completed four of these, and sent them off to their new home. All but one ended up looking very different. More realistic.

  Rumi  yesterday afternoon.

 Pretty kale leaves.