Lack of both time and enthusiasm continue to plague my painting endeavours as we hurtle towards the festive season!
I’m still focussing on playing around in my sketchbook, but despite my best intentions I didn’t even manage to finish this little Barcelona sketch:
It’s not far from finished – just some figures and cafe furniture to add beneath the umbrellas and, in the foreground, a figure sat on one the many permanently fixed chairs.
I just some old masking fluid to mask out the tree trunks but I think the fluid may have gone off! It’s an old bottle that I’ve had for years but when I came to remove it, it left a strange green residue that had managed to seep into the paper. I was able to remove most of this by scratching it out the tip of a scalpel but in doing this, it really damaged the paper!
I quite liked much of the study so far though so was keen to try to rescue this one! The trees will remain largely unpainted, just the odd shadow to add falling across them here and there.
Hopefully I’ll get to finish this one off over the coming weekend.
I hope that everyone’s plans for the festive season are progressing in a nice and orderly fashion!