Went on a one-day course run by Tim Benson on portrait painting in oils at The Mall Gallery. Just loved his approach – 6 colours max. and one brush only…. as big as the canvas allows. Magic, just my kind of painting. Thoroughly enjoyed it and the return to oils. Tim quickly picked up on my painful lack of confidence and somehow forced me admit that what I had achieved was actually half good. He was so encouraging and his instructions, comments got straight to the point each time.
It was a deliberately challenging pose as you can see. But made me want to do more portraits. Then to my delight after I’d reTweeted one of Tim’s paintings he now follows me on Twitter. Me and 7000 others ! But Hey …..never mind.
