So I’ve been trying to paint actual things lately… When I was working as a sound engineer over November and December I draw in my sketchbooks when the bands were playing, I have trained facebook (of all things) to show me drawing manuals, so I go on there save a bunch of examples and would practice drawing hands, eyes, figures, animals etc. Through concentrating on form and basic shading I have built up a fluidity in my hand that means I can paint quickly and with very few strokes. I have always loved the ability of painters who can paint like this, William MacTaggart probably being my favourite. I’m pleased with the progression I’ve made in confidently blocking this in, creating single stroke tapers, I don’t think anything looks like actual speed and fluidity on a canvas. I have a few more like these in the pipeline that are based on cool photographs I’ve found.

This image is from a photo book called ‘The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams’ by Alessandra Sanguinetti.

For more than two decades, Alessandra Sanguinetti has been photographing the lives of Guillermina and Belinda, two cousins living in rural Argentina, as they move through childhood and youth toward womanhood. This volume, originally published in 2010 and reissued now as the first instalment of a trilogy, chronicles the first five years of their collaboration. Sanguinetti’s images portray a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional.