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Today’s portrait is of the beautiful Parisian girlfriend of mine. It was super nice to catch with you at that bistro near the Opera over something sweet and white  the other week.

Today’s portrait. Happy upcoming Holidays, everyone!

A new portrait today. The usual 19 x 19 cm, oil on board.

I met Eric at the Poilane bakery near Victoria station  the other day. He was finishing up his 5 am shift baking loafs of bread for the morning delivery around London. The small production is a complete replica of the original bakery in Paris. It’s very cozy and hot inside.

The  People I know series have been going on nicely, I’ve gotten a good line-up of sitters but nowhere close to the ambitious 30 portraits goal (not one-a-day, no, not happening). So looking forward to hear from you if you’d like to sit for me.

In fact people are so much more consuming and entertaining to paint, my  painting-a-day practice has moved into the background. That is, I still paint every day (you can see the proof that I am a busy bee on the right hand side column of my site through the Facebook, Flickr and Twitter feeds) but some changes are coming here to adjust to my current  work rhythm.  Stay tuned.

Tina, no. 6

You see, I suffer miserably from seasonal allergies.  In spite of living by the park, this year was the best  for me so far thanks to my lovely homeopath Tracy, who did her magic on me with the treatments and kindly posed for this number 3 painting in the series.