How To Make A Good Painting Great

Step 1: Ignore everybody (who say they love it). This is easy when your studio is on an island, but when you're painting downtown it is much harder. There is a point when a painting is done though...



Step 2: Use magic. Or hangman hangers to make the painting float on the wall.



Step 3: Sand. This removes all the brush stroke topography of the previous layer so if you change something, there isn't a ghost image of what was underneath.



Step 4: Mix paint. These are my base colors that the sky gradient will go through, with the cloud colors under that.
Step 6: Get some sleep. The next day (which will be long) is all ready to go...

- jb boyd