Painting over a failed painting. Part 2

Generally when I am painting over a failed painting - I want to retain some of the color and texture, however, in order to create a new image, the paint needs to go on very thick.
I paint thick anyway - that is what I love - it is so beautiful and rich.  The oil paint I am using here has cold wax added.
The cold wax is great for a couple of reasons - 1 it thickens the oil paint which is slippery and makes it slide on very nicely.  2 Oil paint takes so long to dry, especially when it is thick - so the wax dries it faster.
It dries with a matt finish and looks somewhat like an encaustic painting .

So I add paint to what is there, I scrape with palette knives, I stand back and look.  I am building a painting.  
I am working from a photo, however at some point, I leave the photo behind and make the images work on the canvas.  That is when it really becomes mine - and that is one of the goals.  I like to start with an image - it gives me a place to go - but I am not interested in copying.  It is up to me to find ways to let go and make the piece become mine.
The piece has lots of nice marks, scrapings and I make even more.  I don't like to be careful.  I want you to see that this is paint on canvas.  It is made with hands using wonderful tools, and it is an interpretation of color and shape and form.  
I check to make sure I have a focal point - which can be a large or small area - but it needs to be a place that your eye sees and goes to first.  Then there needs to be significant color changes, shape changes, size changes - something to lead your eye around the painting.
I like the variation in the color - I like where I have scraped through.  Is it finished?
Did you see Part 1?  Go here: ​https://www.nandavisart.com/paint-out-loud/painting-over-a-failed-painting-part-1
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Oil painting unfinished