Having left the painting alone for a day or two it became apparent that there was a hell of a lot of work required! The main thisng was the foliage canopy at the top of the trees which looked entirely unconvincing. I felt the trees were "runing out" at the top, and needed to finish, leaving the sky beyond. They were also far too thick with leaves generally and there needed to be a much more airy feeling to the trees.

Had this been a pure watercolour painting these alterations would have been quite impossible, but with oil pastel it was easy, especially as I had given the painting a couple of coats of fixative which had sealed the pastel. This gave me a brand new surface to work upon. Sennelier oil pastels are very rich in pigment so are quite opaque, making it very simple to work over the painting.

Here is the painting now: