The best thing about a painting challenge is that I’ve learnt to make art differently. Sometimes daunted, always rewarded, I ditched routine.

Daily painting liberated me to take more risks because I didn’t have a great investment in material or time. The small sized paintings alleviated problems.

Learning impasto painting for these daily paintings, rather than usual method of using increasingly thicker paint over previous thin layers, build confidence.

Using digital reference photography requires adjustment to give paintings more dimensionality. An infinite light and colour range is compressed to a manageable.

Making this challenge fit life was paramount. Each work takes and hour to paint. Then, there’s video edit and upload, usually took four hours.