The image shown is of a painting by William Townsend, painted in 1952. William was a lecturer at the Slade Art School, along with his friend Coldstream, he of the infamous Coldstream Report of the early 1960s, which introduced the need for O Levels for art school applicants, and thereby introduced a wholly unnecessary obstacle for would-be artists to surmount.
The image shown here is more vivid than the original: the original sky, for example is more Cobalt than Electric Blue. In any case, the bright pigments of today were unobtainable in the !950s.
This is all a digression: the point is that William Townsend and his family were well-known to my parents. I went to see William at his house in 1971 to ask his advice, I was then two years into an architecture course, which I badly wanted to leave,
This is really cool! But HOW did you make the colors brighter than the original?
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