I found this pencil drawing and unfinished oil painting, today. Behind another old artwork (an abstract print), in our lounge!
The reason I call this The Absent Procuress is because in the original there’s an old crone – the titular Procuress – on the right. I left her out. Good riddance!
This kind of stalled, on the lute strings, many years ago. Anyway, now I’m suddenly doing art again, I figured why not try n’ finish it?
So I painted the strings in today. Kind of. They need separating into pairs, or ‘courses’ (I think?). And, the way I’ve gone about it, they also need ‘knocking back’, and shadows need redoing, etc. So, there remains quite a ways to go.
Hopefully I’ll do some or all of that tomorrow, when Flo’s MOT forces me to stay home anyway. I’m also expecting the deluxe new Taschen Baselitz tome to arrive in the morning… can’t wait!