Gone back to oil paint. I like the long drying time. It means everything remains active, alive, for days, weeks so less predictable, less controllable. I like the plasticity

I waited for weeks for something to happen with this painting after the initial work making the marks and lines, fields and particles then decided it must be done and poured a puddle of floorboard varnish all over it and began to spread with a wide brush which is the way I varnish – poor technique i imagine but I’m impatient and at that moment the Madurai Sri Meenakshi No.11 Dark Red Special Thazhampoo Kumkumam pooja powder made its entrance yet again (I’m writing this before i write about how i came across this magic powder) and added its burning rusty sunsets into the varnish finishing the painting in the final sentence of the last act.