Worked on many layers. You can get some insight in the process of this painting, at my blog, here.

The text on the painting is a quote from LaoTsu´s Dao de Jing.

"...under heavens and earth, there is nothing softer than water. 

Although it is soft, there is nothing comparable in overcome the hardness.

Everybody nows, that the soft wins against the hard, but nobody is able to act like this..."