Until the 15th of december it’s the olive picking season so in order to allow my relatives to produce this delicious new and organic extra-virgin olive oil, I have to sacrifice lot of (all?) my time at the brushes in order to keep things going.

In the little free time I’m continuing to work on Mara’s portrait, which has come now to its third layer (meaning it looks monochromatically orangey now) and to another commissioned “dead nature” (=still life translated literally) which is really, really dead because it represents a dead hare and some other autumny decadence.

I am about to start a new series of commissionned portraits; the first one is an important challenge for me (I will explain better why later) and in addition I would like to try for this one a new technique which is called “Mischtechnik” (Mische Technique) and was developped by the Dutch Old Masters at the end of the 15th century (wish me good luck ^_^).

I’m also working on a new large painting on the theme of Parthenogenesis (WIPs coming !).

The “Tuscan Dream” series is far from being completed, I have actually painted only 6 pieces with this inspiration, so it is barely begun (and I need  its light, peaceful and easy, comic-ish athmosphere around myself).
Yet, counterbalancing this simplicity, I have some more complicated and personal themes I’d like to explore, and since I have more or less clarified which technique and what grade of realism I’d like to use for those, why not start immediately, following the flow of inspiration ?