I've sketched in the outline for the third of the Red Chair paintings.
Progress on this one will likely be fairly slow since I still have a lot of other constraints on my time over the next three or four weeks, after that a lot of things will…
I didn't get it finished like I had hoped last weekend. Sunday I was too keyed up about starting the new job to really do anything. I got a little work done over the week, finishing off the background and getting it to this point.
Cornelius Huysmans is an ancestor on my maternal grandmother's quarter of the family (her maiden name was Huysmans and one of her middle names was Cornelia). Here's what the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica has to say about him:
The second in this series. It's just blocked in and has a long way to go yet, but I'm pretty happy with the start. And, in case you are wondering, the woman in the foreground is Rockabilly Nicole I have no idea who anyone else is in this picture…
