Artist's Palette

Fusion

STEP ONE

I start by drawing small shapes and sketches on sketch paper, until I have a design I like. Then I decide what size canvas to use and roughly sketch it again to scale.

STEP TWO

Using a light grey pastel pencil, I draw onto the primed canvas – using set squares and rulers to get the sketch square, and string on the pencil to create regular circular shapes (if working small, a compass will suffice). This painting is quite large (152 x 122

cm) but I’ve done them

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