From Russia to Budapest – warm weather, no snow, no, I spoke too soon, snow the next day. We rented a cheap apartment for two weeks, which was a chance for me to work on some of my ideas for paintings from the past couple of months. I worked on compositional and colour studies in ink and gouache.
Seeing a great impressionist show of paintings from the Pushkin Museum Moscow was a highlight. Picasso’s painting Arlikin and Friend really blew me away. I wish I knew his secret to making his simplistic drawing and counter-intuitive use of colour, like blue and green in the flesh, work so well. And so different to Ilya Repin’s realist paintings, which are so lifelike that they look like they could breathe. The struggle continues – in which direction should I go?
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