Oil paint granulates beautifully on Aches Huile paper and a quick study in the life class turned into a 40 minute exercise in prodding and dripping turps into the paint. I was also interested in balancing how much I had to do to paint to keep it figurative versus letting the paint do its stuff.

This was partly triggered by the effects I got in the 40 min study of Richard also at the Bristol Grammar School life class.