Ed Sumner’s “Cheese and Wine Painting Club” is back on Facebook! Brilliant. Ed started it during lockdown and ran it every Friday for about 18 months. Since lockdown ended and we’ve all been getting back to what we were doing before, Ed has only done an occasional one, and today was one of those days! We copied a portrait of a woman by Pablo Picasso.


We started by drawing the head in pencil, unusual as Ed normally gets us straight into the paint. But once the drawing was done, it was easy to fill in the colours, a bit like painting by numbers to be honest. I’m chuffed, it’s so much fun and I learn loads about handling paint. It needs a bit more faffing, maybe another half hour or so and I’m done.

