Painting a Day: T. J. Murphy

Daily exercises in tonal realism since February 2013; adorned with terrible puns since 2014.

Thursday, 25 February 2016

Seated pose with invisible model.

Oil on canvas board, 16" x 20"

Posted by Tim Murphy at 21:12

Tim Murphy: I'm a Luddite web developer who yearns for the pre-digital past. I make the modern world tolerable by painting, playing musical instruments, walking, reading books and enjoying long breakfasts. Oh, and I watch the odd bit of telly, but I don't admit to that.

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