Although I have some way to go before I've created the perfect bubble, I am starting the final painting anyway.
'Memento Mori' comprises of nine small canvases and I have just finished staining them black before I start the painting. I decided to work 'light over dark' after looking at Millais' painting 'Bubbles' in which the said bubble hovers against a dark background.
Millais apparently had a sphere of crystal especially made for the purpose. I've had to rely on photographs from the Internet and some pictures that Max took of him and Sebastian blowing bubbles a while ago.
I did however, retain a glass Christmas bauble which I thought might prove useful.
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