Weak at the knees reserved standing atop a vintage tool

standing atop a vintage tool box

the Bath Society of Artists

It is possible that the lack of formality might point to this being a friend of the artist or more

The colours were ultra marine

a hangover from the era of Victorian genre paintings but a very modern painting for 1889

Weak at the knees reserved standing atop a vintage toolThe Age Tanned Collection I have used pages from a 1902 edition of Florence Marryats novel My Own Child. The quaint chapter titles and the gorgeous Rich Tea biscuit colour of the pages really helped forming the ideas for these little paintings. Oil pastel, acrylic paint and drawing ink on age tanned vintage book pages & UV protective museum glass