Still on the same piece… I had to make a choice, Do I keep the background clutter, confusion, and distractional…

[Detail below to show how work will proceed.] The beginning of the actual painting; the masses loosely painted in. oil…

Has the habit of alternately running dry and overflowing… maybe practise and getting to know the pen’s peculiarities and how…

(sketchy shaky) line drawing in pen and ink on A5 paper (last night) of (mostly) canvases and stretchers

I ought to have begun this piece with sable NOT hog bristle brushes. The latter leave tracks / brushmarks that…

Oil on canvas , 18 x 18″, Feb 28 2019 I think it was a month ago I began this…

This needed finishing, the bare white canvas was drowning out the head; remedied with paint scrubbed into aforesaid bare white…