I've applied the layers of colour and also added highlights and shadows. This is delicate work, oil paint has the consistency of thick butter and as such can be tricky to manipulate. That the paint dries so slowly is both a blessing and curse, the blessing is you can continue moving it around and making [...]

The colours are going on again. Through trial and error I find the most successful method is to apply several thin layers allowing for drying time between layers. You then build up a lovely colour saturation and density. If you apply the paint thickly it looks heavy and takes a LONG time to dry, we [...]

The areas which will be colour have now been blocked out in the white gesso. I've applied around four coats of the gesso to get a pure white. When the colour is applied it will look clean and pure, no marks underneath. I quite like the look of the painting as it is now the [...]