New Year New Medium - Dahlia in Oils probably

I was given a lovely boxed set of Winsor and Newton Oil paints for Christmasby my Long Suffering partner and it has me all excited.

I did evening classed when I was about 20 and as part of the course dabbled in oils now I just want more. Its been 36 years since I did anything with oil painting.

I stupidly thought lets start off with something small while I get used to the medium so I chose a 7 by 5 canvas I had lying around. I am working in my conservatory as it has been to cold to work in my studio. I am using my ironing board as a work bench.

I primed with a mix of Winsor Blue white and a bit of Burnt sienna then drew out the flower in charcoal. Trying to use a very thin mix of Oils while I find my way around.

Added more colour and did my favourite naughty trick - oh well I have a palette knife and colour lets plaster some colour on the background.

As I am using my ironing board I have put an old redundant road Atlas down to protect the surface.Well when I say protected it will be for all of about 5 minutes.