The desire to work with colour again was growing in me, especially after working on a couple of oil/canvas commissions I’ve done in Spring. I have started adding colour to my graphite drawings, but it didn’t work as I wished it would (the colour and greys were mostly arguing instead of supporting each other). At first I couldn’t really see how my ideas could be executed in colour, so I decided to start easy. I literally reproduced this piece (first made using graphite and oils) in colour using very limited pallet (I think it was madder lake deep, cadmium red and titanium white). That allowed me to just feel the paint again, try to manipulate it a bit this way and that and play with luminosity. I think it was a successful first step.