Day 2 of this little painting. I had meant to work on this some more last night but I left my iPad at a friends so wasn’t able to do so. In a funny way this helped because I was able to sleep on things and then go back to the painting afresh
When painting this I also set myself some rules, oh rules the killer of creativity. In this case I was only going to use shades of red, orange and pale yellow and only one brush type. On the whole I was able to keep to this, the most obvious exception being green for the bottle but this really couldn’t be helped.
I’ve enjoyed this a great deal and probably learnt more than I care to say – however the biggest lesson is that, well, Velazquez was a painting genius – no prizes there for original thought!
Simon Marchini
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