This is not the time for discovering new things and trying to incorporate them into a project. More oil paintings!!

I know I shouldn't but I found some work the other day in the Artists' Handbook that I fell in love with.

I'll check later, but I believe the name was Jan Vanriet. I love the pared down nature, simplicity and containedness all at once. The implication of skin tone as the complementary to the green.

So I had a go, firstly at a straight copy and the compositions of my own.

Maybe too illustration for my purpose but I think they work.

The disaster painting, I think I went too big with this one, lost and sign of subtle and might have to file it under B. I. N.

Looks better on here than it does in the flesh, maybe I won't trash it yet, maybe I'm a better photographer than painter?