Aeons after starting these (2014!), I’ve finally painted the lute courses; seven pairs of double strings.
Not great, perhaps? But they’ll have to do. Next I need to add the frets to the lute. And a bit of shadow, and/or something of interest to the rather bare background.
I think I’ll go back to occasional copies of ‘Old Masters’, as a bit more of a regular thing. Good for skill building, and poss’ saleable?
FOOTNOTE:
We went to a Topping Books author talk, last night (10/11/‘25), given by Andrew Graham-Dixon, about Vermeer. I showed him this ‘work in progress’, and he informed (or is it reminded?) me that it appears in a couple of Vermeer’s works!
