continuing to paint

Boy I hate it when one layer of my painting looks so good I fear adding other layers in case it will ruin the work I have already done, meanwhile knowing what I have done may be pretty but does not fit with the rest of the painting. I suddenly find chores I need to do that have nothing to do with art. Alright, I need to accept this part may not work and just experiment. Sometime I find it did work and other times that it did not. And just maybe my new attempt works even better. In my painting Early Fall #5 I found that the middle leaf came together only after leaving it to the last. I had tried a number of times but none of the attempts worked. At the end I had no other options but to paint it. Once I quit worrying it worked out even better than I had planned. In this case I liked the leather look the paint came up with