A study drawn from the panel's palette card, at its real 50 × 50 cm proportions. Photography follows when the piece is photographed under the north window.

The largest eclipse study yet, one minute before the ring closes. On the easel now; the resin coat waits for a dry week with the windows open.

• Ink petrol#080D13
• Corona silver#AEB2B5
• Moon oat#F2EFE8

1. Cradled birch panel, two sealed gesso coats
2. Ink ground, three coats, cured between
3. Disc and ring masked; silver drybrushed at the seam
4. Glitter and resin still to come, gated on ventilation weather