Hey Wendy – thanks so much!! Glad to hear you’re on a roll (nothing quite like that feeling!)! Yes, do keep this idea tucked away for sometime when you may feel stuck. It really is a goodie 🙂
Glad you are enjoying Big Magic – sooooo inspirational!

Dry periods are a bumper that’s for sure Jan. 🙁
I encourage you to take a small piece of paper, put on music that moves your soul, find a Master painting with big value shapes and go for it. Just get in there and enjoy the process of working. Try to detach from the outcome. Moving those pastels about on paper is the REAL deal!

Thank YOU Anne for such an enthusiastic response to my post. LOVE that you are going to try it.

And it made me smile when I read about now knowing what to take with you on your visit to Naples (loved it there when I taught a workshop!). It’s way better to take small pieces and fill them up and wish you’d brought bigger pieces than take large pieces and hardly use them! And it will be fun to use up the Dakota samples 😀

Do give it a try Ruth. It’s a very satisfying exercise!

Thanks so much Brenda. Of course much of the credit is due to Edward Seago who picked the scene, simplified it, composed it, settled on the values and colour, and added the figures!
Venice is a not-to-be-forgotten place that’s for sure. Cam and I visited the city briefly after my workshop in Croatia in 2017. I would go back in a flash!

Thanks Kathy! At this point I wasn’t really stuck about what to paint per say (but yes that can happen!) but what to paint in a very limited time and with very limited mental space available (as I was in the last week of preparation for my monthly membership IGNITE!). So once I was on a roll, it made it so easy to get cracking as I already knew what I was going to paint before I got to the studio. This is also the case when you work in a series! Boom, you get to it because you’ve skipped that deliberation step!

Do try copying the masters from the past. It’s amazingly satisfying.

As to a recommendation, it’s difficult because I’m not sure what your requirements are. You could start with Edward Seago work! Just click the Portland Gallery link at the end of the post.