Latest painting ‘Shoes on Brickwork’ is the first thing I have painted outside. It feels as though the pallet has naturally changed to slightly cooler colours. It took me, on and off, a month or so and I was sat in the small enclosed outside area of my house.

I really enjoyed painting the brickwork, especially the ones closest, the surfaces really started to breakdown for me and thats where this broken brush-stoke thing came from. There were no intentional decisions made here, but I haven’t used any blending, which is quite interesting, I think it helps get describe the intensity of the sunlight hitting the different surfaces, the leather of the shoes or the old, mossy bricks.

I wasn’t sure how to approach painting grass, so I just started trying to emulate it climbing through the cracks in the brickwork and then reused that graphic description throughout the rest of the painting with bright greens and prussian blues, this was also a good way to put different colours together and frame the bricks.

The wall and the brickwork at the back of the space is much more vague and this is an attempt to emulate my focus on the foreground, thats how I was seeing it, the most prominent thing was the line of red bricks, curling around in front of the drain.