Red Curtain

This is a thumbnail for a foot-square deep colour piece. The blue on blue image and its companions are popular, and a couple of people who have seen them have encouraged me to work on something deep red. I have

Cezanne’s Forest: Day 1

I am copying another Cezanne. This has become a habit with me. It is far more challenging than the last one I did, the pile of skulls; this has irregular shapes that I cannot relate to anything I know, and

Blooming Huge Blue Glass Still Life: Day 4

Today was my first day of painting, as opposed to planning where to paint by putting marks on the canvas. I started off with two pure colours, which is very rare. I tend to have a selection for mixing, and

Self-Portrait in Oils, day 19

More fun with NMM Today was more of the watch and ring combination. If there had been any other areas that required a greyish scale of tones I would have done those at the same time, but it was only