Here is another image of my unfinished painting "Positano from the East No 2" in gouache on A2 watercolour paper. I've worked on it for about 4 hours in total today, since the last photo in this series. It needs at least another 8 hours' work, I estimate. I'm not sure whether to include so much sea and sky in the composition and whether to paint some clouds in if I do keep so much sky. The sea is nowhere near finished, nor is the town, and there will be a flotilla of little boats on the water, of course.
Today is the anniversary of William Blake's birth in 1757. He was one of my heroes as a student, for his visionary poems ("Albion" for example) and his illustrations to them. Nowadays I prefer his more lyrical poems, the "Songs of Innocence and Experience". My favourite is still that famous one, "The Tyger".
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