Maude in the Louvre
Digital Painting
by Donal Jolley

Maude is a young art student I met in a gallery of the Louvre. She was unaware of me taking the picture of the striking scene. I loved the light streaming in from the window and the image of the student learning from masters of so many years ago.

That was on my mind when I chose to paint this digitally. Many of the paintings were created from paints hand ground and mixed by the artists. Since then many changes have been made: the acceptance of watercolors, the adaptation of newfangled acrylics, and now the advent of digital painting, which in many traditional art circles is today considered anathema.