Take a look at my independent blog (www.wightpaint.blogspot.com) for the first of a two-stage posting of my latest painting; the second stage follows in a few days - please feel free to leave comments. I'm reverting to acrylics for a while, which (frankly!) I find easier than anything else - it isn't that painting anything is exactly easy, but in acrylic you can correct errors far more quickly than you can ever do in oil. I read the other day that acrylic is 'the perfect medium for the amateur'. What a pile of soiled old washing! The only advantage acrylic offers over other media is speed - it dries quickly, so you can overpaint, that's all. You can do just the same in oil, but it'll take you a week or two as opposed to the single day that acrylic will need. And for all the mystique created around watercolour, quite honestly correcting mistakes is the least of your worries - all you've got to do is a) know where you've gone wrong, and b) blot it out quick..... the difficulty, and this applies to any medium, is much more fundamental and has nothing to do with correcting errors: it's getting the composition right in the first place - get it wrong, and you're forever correcting your painting: doesn't matter what medium you use. I've felt for a long time that the real challenge lies in the drawing - paint is almost infinitely manipulable, but those who work in pencil, conté crayon, and pen and ink , who don't have the advantage of opaque or fluid paint so can neither obscure their errors nor blot them out, have a much harder time than painters, and must throw away far more work than we have to do. I don't waste a lot of sympathy on them, mind.....