Working studio...

Welcome to my working studio.  Of the two rooms, this is the back room where the skylight gives me as much good light as I can hope for in an historic building.  My working wall is full of heightened chacoal sketches that I am using to work out sizes and compositions for paintings.  These three are 24 x 30 and 30 x 36. You can see tables with boxes that have just arrived, a couple of oil paintings in progress, and a large ink drawing on newsprint testing out the size requested by a client for their double portrait...the usual jumble of things that move in and out of the space as I work.

Still life - Nonni's Tea Cup and Pearls

Well, that was an adventure! We managed to travel 1,500 miles in 5 days. Raleigh to the opening at Cape Cod, visits with family on Cape Cod, Boston, and Reston, VA... and now back to work. It took me two days to get back into the swing of things. In going through the studio to do some rearranging, I found this 8 x 10 oil of my grandmother's tea cup and pearls I had done some time earlier. The photo of the full image is a little too glistening with light on the dark colors...the camera and I disagreed on the settings...but I think the close up of the pearls is interesting. Any comments?