Today I have been struggling on with this painting I started last week and I am still not happy with it. I was inspired by a photo that I saw in the paper last weekend of the island of Vaila, one of the Shetland Islands. The colours really inspired me and I thought it would make a nice change to paint a mixed land and seascape but my style keeps getting tighter and tighter and I wanted it to be very loose. I like aspects of it such as the stone wall in the foreground and some of the sea and sky but generally I seem to be going around in circles so I am going to leave it for a while and hopefully come back to it with fresh eyes.