An afternoon in the sun preparing materials for new ‘Wine Villages of Bordeaux’ paintings.
Each board is carefully prepared, cut sanded, trimmed, treated the a scrim glued on. Boards are more durable than plain canvas, less fragile, and have other virtues. The scrim will painted first with Gesso, which together provides a good ‘tooth’ for the painting to grip
I’m not short of ideas for the new paintings, looking forward to having time to focus and paint.