I did this Painting yesterday morning. I know it isn’t the usual run of paintings, but I have been wanting to do this subject for a long time and finally managed it.
It only took me about one hour. It was a bit difficult because I had my pochade on my knees, sitting on a very small stool, on a small path, because of all the other graves. I didn’t want to sit on sacred ground.
I started painting around 1990 and loved it straight away.
I started with watercolour,and then after about 15 years I moved to Oils and acrylics. I still paint the odd watercolour to keep my hand in so to speak. I love impressionism. The only time I use detail is when I paint portraits. Otherwise it is my interpretation of the subject.
I am retired but still find it hard to find time to paint. I reckon I can manage to do a painting about three times a week.
Originally I was a Motor Mechanic. Then, for the eighteen years leading up to my retirement, I worked
for Barclays bank.