another version of 'The luck of Ginger Coffey'

I am working on this old image, because I like the commonplace of the location, and the isolation of the figure.

ARNOLFINI MARRIAGE 107cms x 87cms oil on canvas

painted today....

I have been working on 'The Arnolfini Marriage'

I think I am nearly there now, practising shapes and colours, and thinking of Delacroix's Journal.  The 2 figures are now closer, and therefore more friendly.

I am very impressed by Wilhelm Sasnal at the Whitechapel Gallery

I have been making a series of small studies of paintings I may well make a lot larger, simplifying the areas and the brushstrokes. Working this way, away from the final canvas, will, I hope hope help me to make more powerful images.

and now the final one of these, palimpsest

I know that this has been going down a cul de sac, but its over, and I am pleased with the results:  an area that I probably shan't visit again.

PALIMPSEST from the Woodrat series

Palimpsest: A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing: something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.  On the left, 'Woodrat Submerged', on the right 'The Birth of Woodrat'

105cms x 87cms mixed media and resin.

I overlaid shapes and the architectural colours of the Woodrat, effacing, obscuring the painting underneath.  They now seem to be saying the right things about the machine

See www.woodrat.com

changing 'Miss Palfrey' NOW she's OK, at last

a palimpsest, parts of the image hidden, giving more strength to the image, blacks and whites and faces singing...