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This is not the first painting I made following the layering technique, but it's the first I documented the progress of. I followed a...

This is totally out of my head, done alla prima in 6 hours during a very bad time for me and my boyfriend. I'm documenting it here as...

This started basically as a joke: can one paint something small enough to be a postcard? I painted this, and my friend Davide decided to...

This was painted following a video tutorial from Michael J. Smith, so it's hardly original as many would have painted this rose - but I...

In 2018 we shot a fantastic photo in Cong's wood (west of Ireland, where The Quiet Man was filmed) and this is my attempt at painting it....

This is a castle at the bottom of a tiny valley, built by a nobleman in Portugal for his little daughter, for the ducks in the moat of...

July 2020, lockdown staycation. I took an online class with Mark Carder and he taught me an awful lot. He teaches realism and this is...

Debbie is a fantastic nice lady I met the previous year while in Pleasanton, near San Francisco. Talking about paintings and reference...

This one was done very much "alla prima", again in 2018, starting with a totally untreated background on cardboard. Again it was just a...

This rose took forever, but I am pleased with the level of details and the likeness to the reference pictures. The grisaille was in umber...

My boyfriend asked me not to proceed to the colour layer as he liked it a lot as soon as I reached the final stage of the grisaille. This...