Hello again hben, and I will declare your first painting here a success if I may!
Even if it doesn’t match the vision in your mind, you will have learned more than you realised while painting it.
All of which will feed back into the next painting, and so on, and so on…
Unfortunately for us artists I fear there is no end to this cycle!
There is always some aspect of a painting that we feel we could have done better!
But we move on and apply what we have learnt to the next painting. And so we grow.