I am now in the finishing stages of the painting. Made a right mess of the lower grasses and weeds  but managed to resurrect it and ended up with a reasonable result, although Ithink the harebells are still too large. Maybe tomorrow I will repaint the Red Campion and make them larger in order to compensate. This would make them more prominent and again give more depth.  Am more convinced than ever that painting in the lower rocks and the sea was a good decision. My final dilemma is whether or not to paint in a seagull on the lower-left Golden Mean, a third of the way ifrom the left hand border and just at the bottom of the green weeds. It would, of course, possibly detract from the nesting tern - so I am not sure. In a sense it is a little too obvious - and when in doubt one should preferably leave out. We'll see!

August 18 - Decided not to paint the seagull. I also reduced the number of Red Campion flowers at top right of picture, above the nesting tern, which I made slightly bigger. Next, I reduced the size of the harebells and enlarged the size of the foreground Red Campion flowers. I then painted in the fine detail of the left hand rock at sea level and lightened it up considerably where the sun would strike it.