Two days of painting preparation. More re-gilding of the frames yesterday. This helped, but the bevelled inner frame still looks inadequate. It may be easier to cut a new one.
Painted two colour studies, for 'Love and Fragility' and 'The Empty House' - both paintings were inspired by the film I'm Your Man.
Today, my first day of painting, on a work called 'Don't Talk To Me About Love'. I didn't paint a study for this small work, partly because I knew it would only take a few hours to paint the whole thing. As a result, however, the colours were unexpected. I instinctively seem to have a grey-yellow-brown on buff image of paintings in my mind. The results were very different to that. The painting, a relatively old idea, has dagger-crucifixes and features a vocal and hurt, and sad/reflective faces on a Janus-like monolith.
