Basia Reading...preparatory study

It's been interesting to see how you have started your epic paintings. Do you do the same with the still lifes? I am happy to see you have not been treated to our multiple poster's abuse after having tried to be helpful in his getting the best out of this site!

I must be special then for such treatment! ... Perhaps there are those that don't read anything properly. To me it is quite obvious, as it was from the moment I joined this site 5 years ago. I only directed him to the front page ... Anyway, thank you for info. I am always in two minds about drawing something before painting it. I am afraid of losing the enthusiasm. I didn't pre-draw Actor, but then I painted it on the back of the strange abstract effort I made last year. I didn't put any pressure on myself and I just let the paint flow. I bet I can't do that again! Having said that, drawing does make you look and you subliminally asborb information ... I drew the face of the girl in Covent Garden before I did it just to get familiar with it. But I do like watercolour too. There is a certain glow you can get with them.