African Lady by Bobbie Matulja

African Lady - Oil on canvas board - July 20th 2024
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Good one Bobbie

Such an expressive portrait Bobbie. Love your choice and use of colours.

Thank you Heather, Spencer and Carole. I wasn't sure about this one.

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21/07/2024
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Oil painting based on a "free for use" photo by Annie Spratt of a group of young ladies at a market downloaded from Unsplash a couple of years ago. I was using up leftover oil paint from Friday's landscape on a canvas I'd primed with gold acrylic. I've been watching Clive Myrie's Caribbean Islands series on iPlayer, and quite by accident picked up the yellow and green from the Jamaican flag.

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Bobbie Matulja

I'm a busy Churchwarden from a rural parish in South Shropshire. After stupidly turning down a place at Art College when I was 18, I joined an adult education course in 2010 which re-ignited my creativity. Since then, I've enjoyed building skills and experience, taking courses with artists whose…

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