It’s weird. I thought working large-scale would be intimidating; such a big, blank canvas to fill. Actually, it’s the opposite. At the moment anyway, I am finding working on a large scale is fantastic. You just have to be brave; there is no room for being cautious.

I started with a mixture of reds … warm, cool, all the options. Fun.

I then used green to start to find my face. I can start to see her; African I think. That may change. I might struggle with the next part. I actually quite like her already and that’s a problem. I need to be brave enough to continue and see where I get to. I know I will go through phases of liking or not the painting. Hopefully I can get to a liking stage at the end … we’ll see.