Burning the Midnight Oil

This acrylic painting of what I would consider a perfect beach day was done as one of my SBA pieces and it was done in a bit of a hurry to meet a deadline, so here’s what happened. Being the good, creative art student that I was my teacher asked me to help decorate the school hall for a ceremony that was to take place the next day while my painting was also due the next day (the one I barely started). I stayed back after school and decorated the hall anyway and I probably left there about 6pm and what was usually a 15 minute walk to my house turned into a 10 minute jog/ power walk. As if things weren’t bad enough when I reached home there was no current but I had to finish the painting and it was already getting dark so I had to paint by candlelight. So there I was feeling like Leonardo Da Vinci with the candles surrounding the canvas but then I realized that the colours weren’t looking the same as in daylight and I wasn’t sure if I was mixing the right colours but I carried on anyway because I had o get it done. Current eventually came back at some late hour during the night and I didn’t finish till 1am. I was cutting it kind of close, barely got any sleep but I got it done and went to school to submit it to my teacher. However, when I did she told me she would give me an extension because I stayed back to decorate the hall. As you can imagine I was all kinds of cross but it was an interesting experience to paint by candle light and I would do it again for the sake of my passion. What are some of the challenges you faces while trying to finish a piece?