I decided to go back to painting after I binge watched watched “Portrait Artist of the Year 2020” last week on youtube. If you get the chance to do so, I highly recommend seeing this series as well as the landscape ones. Both are so inspiring to me (with a minimal amount of envy, truth be told.)
I had this photo I took about 30 years ago at a timber framers conference outing stuck in my files. I loved the heart shape at the base of the tree and always thought I’d have a print made of it. Maybe too late now as I only have a negative and a print and how would that work now in this digital age.
Anyway, I was very happy with the first day’s work. Enough so that I was intimidated to work more lest I “ruin” it. No fear, I have done more, but it took me two days to pick up the brushes again.