When you know you have done good work there is not other feeling like it in the world. I finished the Raven painting and I was satisfied. We tried a lignin treatment but that was a non issue. SO I began again and worked the old fasshioned way a step at a time. The post the bird was sitting on was a gnarly thing with lots of whorls and broken light. Trying to be as painterly as possible I brushed ochres and cad red and siena with touches of blue. The raven needed only a few more violets and blues to be complete and the grass was a matter of push and pull until the right feeling had been accomplished.