March 22nd. A similar aspect to my January 19th daily, but this time I was higher up on the bank, not on the beach. After a solid start I got bogged down in the left-hand quadrant where I over fussed, adding a plethora of different vegetation. It was top-lit by the sun and although it was rather attractive in real life, it looked busy and distracting in the painting. I ripped it all out and replanted some simpler bushes. I also altered the tree shadows on the water that were reading as dark against the turquoise shallows but ran out of muted tones for the areas that were darker still in the foreground bushes. Today was what I would call a “save”. The knowledge of what went wrong and how to address it is a learning skill. I imagine there is plenty else wrong too but I’m too blissfully ignorant to know that yet 🙂