I have been struggling with drawing hands recently so I decided it was time to try harder. They are not easy even with help from Andrew Loomis but I will keep trying.

At the art society last night we were asked to draw or paint from imagination after a poem was read to us. The poem was Sea Fever by John Masefield. I wandered off topic a little but at least there are boats!

The next painting in my musicians series is the keyboard player.

The model for today’s portrait session at Broadstone Art Society was Lena. It was good to paint a pretty young model and as a bonus she doesn’t wear glasses. I hate painting glasses!

This is the third in my musicians series following the monochrome sketch I did yesterday. In some ways I prefer the first version!

This is a trial sketch for my next musician painting. It is just a water soluble pen and some wash. #penandwash

This is the second in my series of musicians. I think I overworked the background, Perhaps I should have left more white paper.

Playing with masking fluid this evening, it’s quite good for snow scenes.

At he Parish art group this morning we had a demonstration of different ways to use masking fluid. I didn’t use it in this painting but I was quite pleased with the colours.