Starting the 1st color layer today… As I sometimes do, I’m utilizing the Flemish technique for this painting #OilPainting #FlemishTechnique #ColorLayer #OldMastersMethod #RealismArt #FineArtPainting #TrompeLOeil #ArtProcess #PaintingReel #ArtistStudio #ContemporaryRealism #ArtEducation #StillLifePainting #ArtOfInstagram #PaintingInProgress #RedBalloonArt #ModernClassicalArt #georgeayersartist | George Ayers - Artist

I envisioned this painting as a science fiction homage to the Flemish masters, but with a futurist tone — dark, slightly edgy, and never meant to be beautiful or timeless. Just a candid moment, captured by a friend in the back of a commercial spaceship kitchen, somewhere in deep space. Maybe the image is framed on a proud parent’s desk back on Earth. Or maybe it’s been digitally printed and taped to the instrument cluster of a freighter ship in a far-off star system… where an admirer counts the

This painting epitomises George IV’s taste for rustic peasant scenes by the Flemish Old Masters. As at any party, there is a lot going on in this scene depicted by David Teniers the Younger. Watch this film to hear Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures, explain the many dramas unfolding in ‘Peasants dancing outside a Tavern’. You can see this painting in the exhibition ‘George IV: Art & Spectacle’ at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.https://bit.ly/2P7A8Sf | Royal Collectio

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