Todays efforts I’m still working on integrating the leaves with the background. Slow, but steady!

Here’s where I am after Sunday’s session. I didn’t get quite as much time but it was still very good. I worked some more on the background and I have reached an edge! Very exciting

Done for the day. I got a lot of painting done today – so much so that my hand is sore If I get even half as much time tomorrow, it will have been a most excellent painting weekend! I’ve started to work on some background areas a bit now so that I can see [...]

Here is the painting after yesterday’s session. (And a very good one it was too – I spent a lot of the day painting!) As you can see by the seething riot of colours – it’s a landscape! I have already strayed somewhat from the sketch, but it’s still there in case I get lost. [...]

I’m just starting a new painting – yay! One of my favourite parts of making paintings is that moment when all the preliminary work has been done and the very next step is to start in with the colours. I’ve got the drawing on the panel and I think I will post weekly pictures to [...]