Dryad with removed handmaiden

I did not have to scrape the paint back in the end. I decided that I liked the strong marks I had made when painting M out and will allow that to develop. It never ceases to amaze me that no matter how much planning I put into a painting it take on a life and direction of it's own once under way. Once again the colours are not right in the photograph but I am happy to show it to visitors to my studio.