Marabout 1

I will post up the finished "Waiting" tomorrow. This one is another kind of oil monochrome but using a muted blue/green over a light yellow ground. First I gave the canvas a coat of Titanium White/Cadmium Yellow Light acrylic as I didn't want it to rub off at the "drawing" stage when I use turpentine to erase errant lines etc. I let that dry overnight and then "drew" it up with a small bristle brush using a mix of Prussian Blue, Winsor Green and Permanent Orange (to temper the saturation) thinned with Liquin. I am leaving this to dry overnight for the morning session when I will put in some more tone with a rag using the same blue/green paint mixture thinned with Liquin.
A Marabout is a shrine to a Muslim holy man, mainly in North Africa.