Milky Way Mountain (Re-touched)

This isn't a new painting, just a new sky.

In December I painted this picture as it is shown on the left and didn't like how the sky turned out. So I painted it again a week later and liked the second version (not shown) a lot more. But I was left wondering what to do with the first one. Since I didn't care if I ruined it, I decided to test what happens if you re-wet a mostly dry painting with liquid clear and try to paint over it.

I rubbed some liquid clear over the sky with shop towel and then wiped the excess off. The painting underneath (a month old) wasn't damaged by the shop towel. Then I went over most of the light areas in the sky with a teal made from phthalo blue and phthalo green and blended it out. Blending wasn't the easiest, but it still worked once I thinned the paint with a little solvent-free gel. I wanted to add pockets of dark back into the sky at that point. I used carbon black because it is opaque and very dark.

My plan was to then add the white tendrils of the Milky Way back over the top, but I decided that I really liked it at this stage, so I didn't. Instead, I just flicked some stars back up there and called it a day.

It went from a painting I'd have been tempted to throw away, to one I'd I'd be happy to hang on my wall.