Yes, imagine your struggle might have to do with the subject of how to ‘suggest’ blades of grass, without actually painting them individually – or something along those lines??! But, whatever you did, it really works for me!!!

Thanks David and no, it’s not gouache. A while back I did use white gouache to add touches of highlights but when it ran out or dried up, I switched to using just W&N Titianium white and this is what I used on this painting (and have been using in other paintings too of late to vary the texture and bring some variety into darker passages).

Hi David and many thanks for this. So pleased you like the recent NY painting but I totally take your point about the row of figures bearing down on the viewer, it’s something that I’m repeatedly guilty of! This is something I need to work on, so that there’s far greater variety with figures walking in all different directions, and importantly too to improve my gender balance! I’ll be adding this to my homework list! Like you, I’m really looking forward to Paul’s feedback. It’ll be interesting to see how much detail he’s able to go into with his feedback as there’s a lot of people on the course!

Thanks so much Hilda, I must confess that’s the part that I’ve struggled with most throughout! It still feels a bit overworked but at least there’s some variety and textures in there now! I’d really like to see how Paul would have handled that area!