Now that the portrait of Guienne Hanover is completed and drying, it’s time to turn back to the lesson paintings.

I got back into that mode of painting by starting the color work on two more paintings. Blue Cooler (shown below) and Impulsion. That brings to five the number of paintings that have entered the final phase of the Flemish technique.

I also brought the portrait of the Little Dog down from the drying room. No painting has been done on that as yet but it is back in the pipeline.

So far, I’ve found this phase to be both the most interesting and the most frustrating.

It’s the most interesting because I can wash on a layer of color and see what happens. It’s almost like opening gifts on Christmas morning. If I don’t like the look, I just wipe off that color and try another. What a delight!

It is frustrating because on some paintings, all I can do is put on color, then wait for the paint to dry. In some cases, color is applied only to very small areas.

But the value of all the work that went into the Umber Layer and Dead Layer becomes increasingly more clear with every painting. Most of the work is done in those two phases, leaving the fun stuff for the end.

One thing I’m looking forward to is doing a landscape or two in this method.

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