Painting 012 - 5/12

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Oil on gessoboard

8"x10"

I decided to atone for the previous painting by tackling one of my biggest challenges to date: the glass. And what do you know? Apart from a really wonky, not-in-perspective circle for the rim of the glass  - and some strange things going on with the metal band as seen though a layer or two of glass - and something happening with the interaction of tea and teabag above the line of the water, I think I might actually have pulled it off properly! And without any blue, ohyeah.

But it wasn't until I put it next to the original glass that I got properly excited:

...because that, ladies and gents, is a week's worth of progress.