A few weeks into the first Covid19 Lockdown in the Spring of 2020, the artist Ed Sumner started the “Cheese and Wine Painting Club” every Friday afternoon on Facebook Live. It was open to anyone, from anywhere, all ages, free for those who couldn’t afford to make a donation, and over the long months of Lockdown, a world-wide community built up. Each week we copied a painting by an historical artist. Now the world is back to “normal”, Ed has carried on teaching online through Zoom tutorials and I did one a few evenings ago, a portrait of a cat in a garden, inspired by Gustav Klimt. Here it is at the halfway stage, there’s a bit to do yet.
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