Impossible to fill all the cracks but I kind of like it that way. I let a little of the wood show through on the cranes because it matches the mud they put on themselves for camouflage. I will need to varnish it in a couple of days then back to Montana!
“Summer is the season of inferior sledding” - Inuit proverb (Women's Wilderness Legend) 
“I might be movin’ to Montana soon…” Frank Zappa again 🙂
“Gonna’ ride the pygmy ponies…” Frank Zappa forever 🙂
A beautiful job,Martha! Your friend is lucky that she knew who painted this, and how to contact you to send it back for repair!
She’s a blogging pal from long long ago! She hasn’t had her blog for a while but we’re in touch on Facebook.
Great job! Love the renewed colours x
It’s a much better blue for the sky, I think.
Cerulean? Or Cobalt?
Phthalo — it’s the blue that I inherited from my friend who died in 2020 of a whole lot of things at once; Alzheimers, a brain tumor, hospital neglect, and alcoholism. I have never used this blue. Cerulean is my go-to sky color but this is nice and now I have a lot of it.
Sorry for your loss. The colour is amazing, I might try and get some
Thanks, Chris. He was suffering intensely from everything, as was his family. Sometimes, it’s time. And for Alex, it was time. It is a beautiful blue. I might switch for skies even in oil paintings.
at least he’s at peace now. X
I was reading about it, and it is also a very colorfast blue. That’s pretty cool. And not toxic.
Must be synthetic?
Yep. A copper compound, not surprisingly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_phthalocyanine
Thanks!
Looks good!
Thank you 😊
It’ll be “moving to Montana soon…” Your client isn’t a dental floss tycoon, is she?
Nope. No pygmy ponies either. 🙂
How ’bout a dental floss bush?
No, just tomatoes. I don’t think she’s even got any zircon encrusted tweezers, but, then, she’s from Oregon. 😉
I LOVE your painting!
Wow! Thank you. It’s a garden sign I painted a couple years ago for a woman in Montana. 🙂