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This is something I started to paint in spring and it has been standing at Brogarn over the summer until now... I have been unsure about what to do with it - either to continue painting the whole thing, or to cut out the part I like the most. Finally I decided for the second option. 

This weekend I've cut the canvas and stitched it to a new support. The outher frame is in the making and now I will only do some final touch-ups. 

Old picture from when I was starting on the under-layer:

I like the structure of the sand and the wrinkles of the hand. I fixated the structure with a specific thick glue which I had brought home from Spain. As you know, in oil painting it is important to do things in the right order and I had to decide about the structure and the glue before I started with the slow-drying oil. At this stage it is impossible to change or add more structure.