First of all thanks ever so much for your comment @allowisticartist
I saw it here the other day, but I have been having a tricky week with doggy, life and internet problems.
So please accept an apology for the time it has taken to get back to you.

That Schmincke May Green is so insane. I have but one tube, now dried out and opened up, but I have literally been using it for years.
It was a big tube!
I got it from a bargains table, along with a whole heap of different shades of gray Schmincke designer's gauche, about twenty years ago, from Oxlade's in Fortitude Valley in Queensland.
I have carried that all with me throughout the years. I got several browns too, many of which are still unexplored.

haha
not that I dislike browns of course.

I was a little surprised at how you put your finger on the problem.

lack of fun in that project.
That sort of mimetic art is not much fun to actually do, although it's a lot of fun to have done.
If you get what I mean.

I like looking at the result, but it's hard work.
The abstract work is so much more fun.

And when I am having trouble getting up again after falling down, it is so much easier to start anything but this work.

I liked all the eyes in your work, you know what they say when things are full of eyes it's a sign we are insane.
I also have some works with plenty of eyes, of course, so not to be taken personally