Evening at the Coffee Shop

Evening at the Coffee Shop

(Acrylic on canvas board, 12x12 in)

‘Art is never finished, only abandoned’, said Leonardo Da Vinci, allegedly. Time to stop fiddling and sign off on this one then.

Evening in Lisbon

 

Evening in Lisbon

(acrylic on mountboard, 10x10 in)

Have you ever regretted starting a painting? I knew quite soon after beginning this one that it was a mistake but I was reacting to a prompt from Gateshead Art Society and didn’t feel I could give up. I think, in fact, that it’s turned out well if a little romantic (clue: we spent our honeymoon in Lisbon), so I shouldn’t moan. But something about the painting of it (the paint layer’s too thin for a start) meant that corrections were needed just about every day for over a week. However, enough hair shirt. Onward!