After a long time with this thing staring at me from the new easel my parents bought me for Christmas, I finally squeezed out some paint to work on this thing again. One of my main goals for the year is to finish the things I start, and in order to achieve that goal, I have to work on those things even when they seem overwhelming. I am still not sure what’s going on with the horizon, but I like a lot of the changes I’ve made to the original block in. I’m going to add a lot more artillery shells, and I think that will help to create a busy foreground and let the openness of the sky in the background feel more expansive. I don’t really want this one to be on fire in the background like my Quality Control painting, but I think the sun needs to be setting or rising so there is an interesting glow. The thing I am struggling with most in a lot of these now is just painting what I want vs painting what I think is “right” and I believe those things are at times working together to make the best work, but there are also times when the “right” thing will not be interesting to look at, and if I don’t find it interesting to look at then I wouldn’t expect anyone else to.