Ending the Unending...

Sometimes getting what is mentally seen can be very difficult...   sometimes, with the best of intentions, alternative solutions must be sought that still completes the 'showing' of the theme...   so it has turned out here - for all the tries to getting the face of the figure I really wanted in this, nothing respectable came out of the endeavors...   so, as a replacement, turned to showing just the top of the picnic basket, with the implication of what is not seen - that figure...   and thus, finally after many delays and breaks, the rest of the grisaille has been rendered - and the glazing of colors can at last be applied to the final part of the landscape [other than, of course, the sky - assuming that is considered a true part of landscape]...