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Because of a plumbing problem at home, I had little time to spend at the Club yesterday, but what time there was allowed me to reconsider this little picture I'd started last time I was there. In the intervening days I'd decided I didn't like it and intended to paint over it. Now that I've got it home again, I'm not so sure. I think I'll give it a little more work and see how it pans out. I suspect that what's troubling me, tonal painter that I am, is the full colour palette. Maybe it's a bit too Albert Irvin for my liking. Much as I like Albert Irvin, I don't think he's really me, or more exactly, that I'll ever really be him.
I'll start by toning down the magenta sky, I think (it's a lot stronger than the photograph suggest).
But I won't be able to start on it again today. I heard by letter that my picture in the People Show sold at the Gala evening last night, and as the show opens to the public today, I'm off to have a look at it with The Architect, who also has a picture in the show.
Later, we're meeting up with his wife, Mrs Sums, who wants me to consider a commission, so she's going to show me what it is she's interested in.
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I'm not sure the "tonal painter" tag fits in quite the same way it did with your posts of last year. I think "full blown colourist" is perhaps more apt. (You do have a great sense of colour).
I LOVE all the colours but the blue is dominating and no matter how hard I try not to my eye goes to that section first and keeps bouncing back.
Congratulations on the sale, Harry. May many more commissions follow in its wake.
Ian - I guess I'm still more confident in my sense of tonality, less so in colour sense. But I feel like I'm getting there.
JafaBrit - It needs work, of course, but it's worth remembering that the blue section is the glass curtain wall of The Gate, the subject (and focal point) of the painting.
Dr Pam - Thanks. I'm currently waiting for three cheques. "Waiting" being the operative word!
It's so enjoyable watching your pictures evolve. Apart from a love of robust colour, I can't tie you in with Irvin at all. Glad you have had sales - now you can buy bread, cheese and wine and come down from the garret.
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