Prepared two more canvases for immediate use and three others to dry for future use. This will save me some time for when I am ready to paint on them.
I am disgusted with my on-line paint supplier when I ordered new paints (oils) the tubes had increased by, in some cases nearly £2 per tube I rang up and was told the price of oil had affected the cost. I enquired about the reduction of vat and shouldn't that even out things to no avail. Who is kidding who?
I've had a split personality this week. My sketches and drawings have been veering away from my original inspirations causing me to doubt (for just one nano second) why there is such a pull away from the original ideas. I know that I need to focus very hard on my original vision to see it come alive for my exhibition.
The dilemma I am in could be very unnerving, so the way I am dealing with this small 'problem' is to allow my drawings to take shape and compile them for future use. ( better to have too many ideas than not enough)
OK! Lots of intangible spinning and braking going on unseen in my mind, while I discover and rediscover another inspirational idea, only to realise when I try to formulate it, that it disappears as quickly as it materialised. I do keep all my ideas, even half formulated ones. They can be really useful in another piece of work. Hence I have a pile of jots, drawings, phrases and colour ideas in the corner of my studio to which I can refer to if I want.
I have just completed another two canvases towards my exhibition in May,which I began before christmas, and they have turned out well. One canvas in particular I cannot stop looking at. I always judge my finished paintings on how it makes me feel to look at it. If it evokes any emotion (sad, happy, curiosity etc) I know I've achieved what I set out to do.
Game on! ( I think thats what the more competitive sportives say) Yesterday I completed the commission painting ready for christmas (though I think I will have to pucker-up and blow on it for a while to help it dry!)
However I am still unable to stop-not even for the imminent seasonal festivities, they will have to fit in with my schedule for the exhibition in May. I don't really want to anyway. So today I began two canvases which I have been aching to start since taking on this last commission. And anyway I am not given to wallowing in my own self satisfaction/appreciation for having done a stirling job for them (unless, of course, I am speaking to Velta)
Working on more than one canvas actually rests one conveyer belt batch of cognitive processes and initiates another when change to the new second one. My mind works well in this way and somehow the images are converged, divided and selected appropriately.
I feel excitement about this work and the ideas just keep formulating. Although my usual preferred medium is oils I think I will probably try mixed media or the lovely interactive acrylics on one of my pieces too.
Also the materials for my 'sculpture' are being collated as we speak. I have a choice too, so all is well.
Must remember to wish you all a very Happy Christmas in case I don't get back to you till the New year. (I suspect I will though.)
Well, my Yuletide commission has tripped me up a little and left me a little behind with my exhibition work. Also my trip last week delayed my painting activities, however my inspiration and inclination to secure a rapid restart has compelled me to make notes and 'unidentifiable' (to anyone else) drawings because the enforced go slow.
The sculpture is also evolving though only in my temporal lobes so far. The very thought of it has cast up images of the finished piece even though as yet there is nothing tangible for you to peruse. It has caused a brainworm of three views on a loop so I don't think I will be forgetting any details.
(Now where's that pen?)
Well, three more canvases I have been working on for the exhibition in May have been completed. I am prepared to immediately immerse myself into more of this work as my ideas and psyche are still in overdrive, however, I have just agreed to paint a late commission destined for a Dance Studio which needs to be dry for Christmas. (One must eat between now and my exhibition). I am happy to be painting two canvases at a time but on this occasion the commission will need to take precedence.
I am away from the studio for four days next week, which is unavoidable but probably a good thing from the Surrealist point of view as I will be in unfamiliar surroundings and it will not doubt inspire me afresh. I have so many ideas and so many pieces of paper with scribbles on that I need someone to catalogue them all!
I will post some of my exhibition work closer to the date, in the meantime I will make an attempt to post a couple of my portraits which are in contrast with the work I am doing at the moment.
