No matter what medium I use, I always seem to end up breaking up the surface of the work with dots of paint or small pen strokes. This is not a technique I deliberately developed, but something that happened over time. When painting, I work with oil on canvas or panel, and always with an underpainting. My drawings on acrylic glass are done in reverse on the back of the glass, and the finished work is mounted approx. 4 cm off the wall, so the drawing casts a shadow on the wall, creating a double image.
To show you how I worked on 'Ode to a beech tree (see under 'nature'): a stop-start video of one of the paintings I made in 2011 for a Dutch project called Voordekunstenaar. Unusually for me, I used a red underpainting...