Last week was a bit of an off week in terms of work, I guess they come along every once and a while and need to be accepted. I could have easily stressed over it but that would have just made things worse.
That said its not like I didn’t accomplish anything, I just didn’t keep to my schedule and lets face it a hard task master created that – me!
It had been mothers day and I found that quite hard having recently lost my mum, and I was feeling a bit poorly too – a lot of us were at college, end of term, needing a break kinda tired. Anyway, all my canvases are built now, prepared and ready to paint on. So now all my efforts over the hols will be on painting the portraits, which is nice.
Someone asked me yesterday am I not sick of faces? They had spent a summer doing portraits and by the end of it they were well and truly fed up with it. I’m not, thats not to say I won’t be by the end. But in a way thats part of the challenge. I have this innate desire to paint portraits, I feel compelled to do so. I often ask myself, nae tell myself, “Isn’t it about time you did something else?” But I just can’t pull myself away from the fascination they hold. How different each one is, how a few marks with the brush can capture a likeness and yet the addition of another and you might lose it again….
Thanks for the tip on the printer Sharoon, I have been doing a bit of research and am now thinking of investing in A2…
I rearranged all my paintings this week onto a wall that I can stand back and take in (tutor wanted to see this, as I’ve been working in a narrow corridor up until now). I have a vision in my head of how the whole thing is going to look and I’m really excited by it, so it was nice to get a partial view of this for others to get an idea. It was kinda freaky but very encouraging – highlighted how tricky the final hang is going to be though. Yikes!
