There is no recipe, no dependable procedure to ensure a successful painting gets made each time, or even one that could be called “complete” as painting, let alone good. Even if one could be teased out by a summarised retracing of one’s steps back from a - perceived - successful painting and an adapting of the procedures that got the work from an A starting point to B consolidation one, it is futile because this B is now part of the past and we must not repeat it. A new ‘B’ needs to be found; one which reveals a new treasure, a new discovery and because of this newness, a new route needs also to be found; a new focus on noticing what is happening must occur in the making, a new intent to make things happen, and a new set of habits that should unfold as the next painting takes shape.