The Piano Room (Keywords: piano interior painting)

Acrylic on wood 10" x 10" £85 (British pounds)plus postage & packing £7 to US; £3.50 to UK and Europe.

I have a couple of friends with pianos in large rooms and we also have a piano in a smaller room. Occasionally when I am cooking the evening meal my son will sit down and play - might be Chopin, might be Scott Joplin. I don't hear too well these days but I can hear enough to enjoy that. A piano sitting there always seems a little sad; it's just waiting for someone to come up and play. A bit like when I go back to my paints and boards and easel. They have been waiting for me.

Anyone looking at this painting who is not a painter might assume this approach takes less time than say my landscapes on my Stalybridge blog. It actually takes a lot more time. For me, the "simpler" a painting is, the more important it is to get it as right as you can. I like the soft, chalky effect the acrylic gives and it allows me to scumble with a dry brush many layers of colour. I couldn't do that, I don't think, with any other medium.