Paintings

Most of my favourite paintings have some messy areas. It's best when a painting looks like a painting, when you can see some brush strokes and the texture of the canvas showing through. When starting a picture I like to make a real mess of the canvas first, using colours like blues and browns and just getting rid of all the white. That way as you work on, these colours show through and introduce some chaos and reality to the work.

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