Tuesday's Child Print - Limited Edition of 25

Original Oil Painting Sold. I try to make my paintings look very natural, free and sketchy. I want them to look quickly-drawn and spontaneous. They are far from it, they take weeks if not months to produce. Here is an insight into how they are done... The board/canvas is prepared with several layers of undercoat and then with several coats of primer. Then a first layer of yellow is massaged in. I let this dry for 3 days then massage another layer in and then another. When this is dry I coat it in Liquin which seals the yellow and brings out the colour. I can then start painting. The Liquin stops the paint sticking so I have to layer it up very slowly, allowing long drying periods between layers. Each image probably has at least 15 layers. I use 9 different tones of paint from black through to white. The black I use is a concoction of black and yellow (the same yellow as is used for the background to balance the colours). The paint smudges very easily and I tend to get finger marks around the canvas whilst I work. Rather than take all of these out and make it too neat, I am careful to leave some of them in which I think adds to the work. I start off by painting the parts that interest me most. My job as an artist is to then not go too far and fill it in. What you leave out is just as important as what you decide to leave in. Museum quality paper: Somerset Enhanced Velvet, a 255gsm fine art paper made from 100% cotton. Age resistant.