Marsh Oil Painting on Canvass, "Here, There & Beyond, 48"x48", by Mercedes Franklin. Private Collection.

I started this painting in all the usual ways, composition, masses, colors etc. As I started the value changes in the masses I stopped to mark the canvass w/lines & notes as to where I had planned focal points as to not lose the placement. Continued painting, closed up for the evening & went to bed. The next time I looked at the canvass I saw some lines directing to an area of nice brush strokes. It was such a wonderful happening I left the lines in.