Tuesday, March 20, 2012

At the Macbeth, Shoreditch 
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 25.3 cm

I think that this picture is at last pretty much finished. 
I may work on the faces a tiny bit more, but I shall leave it alone for a good while first.
Painting largely from memory whilst still trying to achieve a certain degree of realism I found very nerve wracking. Trying to work out the lighting, in particular, was especially tricky; different coloured lights coming from all sorts of different places! But for now, at least, it feels finished, and I am actually quite happy with it…


At the Macbeth, Shoreditch 

Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 25.3 cm


I think that this picture is at last pretty much finished. 

I may work on the faces a tiny bit more, but I shall leave it alone for a good while first.

Painting largely from memory whilst still trying to achieve a certain degree of realism I found very nerve wracking. Trying to work out the lighting, in particular, was especially tricky; different coloured lights coming from all sorts of different places! But for now, at least, it feels finished, and I am actually quite happy with it…