How many times can you paint over a painting?

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How many times can you paint over a painting?

I'm often asked this question. This can be a fine line... I can't tell you how many times I've heard artists say the following about a painting... "it wasn't quite right, then I went back in and I overworked, ruining the painting!" So yes, you can overwork it and at other times you can just be unhappy with it and continue to change it until you feel you've a good painting. This is the case of this painting I'm going to show you in the photos below.

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Jeffrey Dunne's beach sunrise photo inspired my newest oil painting

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Jeffrey Dunne's beach sunrise photo inspired my newest oil painting

I'm a morning person. If I sleep past nine o'clock I feel I've 'lost' a whole day. Fortunately, I have a Facebook friend in Florida who is a 'real deal' morning person. He gets up before daybreak every single day of the year to be on the beach at dawn and photograph the arrival of the morning. He shoots hundreds of shots, then returns home to edit the work. Afterward he puts three to twelve of his best shots on FB before eight am. WOW! He generously asks his friends to use, or copy the ones they like or want. 

I want to show you one he recently posted.

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