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This question is one with which I always struggle.  How do you know when you have reached the point that your work is complete, and it's time to stop?  When I was in law school, all of us law students had the same question aboout our research:  How did we know when we had found all the relevant cases?  In that instance, I learned to recognize the stopping point when my searches down different paths started turning up the same cases over and over.   But with painting, at least in my experience, it's not that simple.  One person says a painting is finished when "there is nothing else that needs to be corrected".  But there is such a temptation to keep working, aiming for the one final touch that will elevate the painting to an even higher level.  More often than not, I err on the side of over-working the painting.  In this painting, "Front Stoop Garden", I forced myself to stop while the most decisive brushstrokes in the shutters and facade were still evident.  I like the geometry and energy they create, and and I think it gives the viewer a stronger insight into my process.  What do you think?