Fighting the need to make it look 'right'.

Often when I'm working quickly I'm concentrating on shape, colour, harmony and interesting paint marks. when I stand back and look at the work the 'mistakes' jump out and I have to work hard at not 'tidying it up'. This painting is a good example of that but I do like the geometry of the room which frames the couple.

New painting-a-day images.

To get a painting started I make 4 small ink marks on the image and the prepared paper in the centre of the edges and also a central cross. I often begin the paintings upside down and work from or closely to the central cross. As ever my intension is to work fluidly and expressively capturing a sense of the image rather than the image itself.

The Green Shed 2013

Three Girls in Leather Jackets 2013

Face on a bag on Rio Beach 2013

Old Man Stops Digging 2014

The Borgen Kiss 2014