This has cheered me up - feel more 'on path' now, despite having to junk the two subsequent portraits.
Good shopping in Carcassonne, got a much need portfolio, some reduced Lefranc and Bourgeois paints I was low in, some watercolours ditto (gamboge! what a difference it makes to everything -) gummed paper for stretching... and in cultura the paper I wanted, now re-branded as Manipak Aquarelle. Staff assure me its the same stuff.
I've now done 25 portraits though if I can, I will drop some. Which means 30 (ish) to go. If I could do 5 a day, the end is a week away. However, the first two of the day - and sometimes the last one - are the only ones that seem to work.
Remember an old artist- Humphrey Ocean* - at a workshop, telling me the work was good but to take it more slowly.
*just looked him up to see if he's still alive - he's only my age, a slip of a geriatric. Like his work.
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