Waiting

STEP ONE

I made several small sketches to get the idea of composition. Then I chose the colours. I lightly sketched in HB pencil the outline of the curtain, wall, table, sea level and mountains; and the vase. I also left a roughly defined area where the yellow flowers would go.

I prepared my palette, squeezing pure colour onto the edges and adding water to some of the pure colour in the dishes for the separate washes – these would be the Alizarin Red, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine and Raw Sienna.

I painted a pale wash of Cobalt Blue with the wide brush in downward stripes for the curtains, leaving white stripes in between. I used the same pale Cobalt wash sweeping down from the top of