If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.