The daylight was waning when I got the poppy paintings to this point.

I don’t like to waste paint. Life was full of unexpected and urgent interruptions while I was working on these paintings, and I didn’t know when or if I would get back to painting before my palette was ruined. There are ways to keep the paint fresh, but it is never as good as when I first squeeze out. 

Instead of wrapping it up and hoping for the best, I decided to use it up.

The photo shows a tangle of leaves but I can redesign those when I work on this painting again.