This is the fourth iPad scribble towards the exhibition Room with a View. So far only two have been developed into oil paintings. But it’s good to get the idea down when it occurs to me , as I can then have it grow in my mind till I’m free to go for it in oil....Really looking forward to develop this into the real thing!

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This oil portrait of the coffee drinker morphed out of the earlier iPad scribble portrait.

Portrait of the coffee drinker

More and more I am enjoying doing a trial iPad scribble before I launch into the real thing. Sometimes I like the scribble better!

Portrait of the coffee drinker

Now that you see the scribble which one do you prefer?

It seems I can’t  help myself. The email comes through promoting the 2019 Moran Prize and I think “ $150,000, that would be handy, worth wasting two days doing a quickie.” This time a self portrait, as I’m always available to pose. Plus I feel no compulsion to flatter, so I’ll call it “ Warts n All “. 7EDDC1B8 DCF5 4A84 B9EA 014AAC0DA084This is how I started, now i wonder if I should have left it as an oil sketch and called it “ The Green Woman “. However I kept going and now it looks like this.....

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No going back now, this is the entry, “Warts ‘n All”......