I dont know if they are working yet but it is probably too soon to tell.I have a new HUUUGE canvas (it doesn’t really fit on my easle) but I dinna know what to put on it.This raises the question Liam asked me when I was working on my vietnamese musician…. maybe it reminds them of someone or something or a time in their lives – or maybe they just like the face…. I love faces and what they tell about the person beneath, but I think they are not where I want to be right now.
Ok. I don’t know where I was when I painted this. No honestly this is so different from anything I have ever done before. I think it is very very dark and brooding but the bizarre thing in this piece is the technique. It is actually a charcoal drawing technique I have used. You know…
This is just a quick photo but I think the image isn’t too bad. What I was after with this was fluidity of shape and to make the skin glow. The location of the light source made it tricky but allowed for some really interesting experimentation of shading and color. My shadows are usually very…
Over the past few days I have been going cray painting. I made Liam go out today to get me more canvasses because I was all out and needed a fix…. its like heroin.anyway.Both paintings are completely different from each other and anything I have ever done before.I don’t have titles for them yet – to be honest both of them took me completely by surprise.I welcome comments, critiques, title suggestions – whatever!
no really it’s the name of my latest assignment. I got up at dawn today full of hope and excitement looking forward to taking the first of many shots exploting the light on an object in glen waverley.. no I didn’t actually, I left the bed kicking and screaming. urg the things we do for…
Last night I made a decsion that while I love my Vietnamese musician (I feel like I know him now, I think his face is beautiful) I am regressing back to portraiture mode and beginning to lose some of the looseness I have gained. I also don’t really know where I am heading with him, I can’t find an ideal place for the instrument that won’t overweight the composition and his shirt is going nowhere. So I have put him aside for now and have started a new piece.Liam and I were talking last night and came to the realization that my best works are really the ones that I have done quite fast.
It’s just a bit of fun really, a very good educational site – it’s a good thing to raise awareness of art history (especially in a fun way, I was the only one who enjoyed art history at my school).In other news I have to get up at dawn one of these days as I have to take a series of photos from dawn to dusk to explore the light. I wouldn’t mind but it has to be an outdoor subject and being physically challenged it makes it difficult for me to pick up and photograph a fabulous location – believe me, my back yard is anything but!… poor guy.I am a little worried about getting enough light subjects – in case you haven’t noticed the light is mostly a uniform gray these days.
I was in therapy before the accident for this precise reason and didn’t really grok it until I had the forced time to reflect.Because of my drive in the corporate world I neglected everything, my body, my health, and what I wanted…. I completely repressed my urge to paint and draw to the point where every time I started doodling at work I became overcome with depression and I stopped being able to see the colors and light the way I used to…. I might have had a breakdown by now (I was well on my way) and would never have rediscovered my art. So, while I am very over the pain and impairment, I think the differences this accident has wrought in me are mostly good.
It clearly shows that Leonardo’s original aim was to create a different painting rather than a copy.Rather than examine the artist’s motives here (which should be pretty obvious!) I think it is interesting that a copy was requested in the first place (I have always wondered about that) and why the other topic was rejected.It is interesting to see that even the great Leonardo Da Vinci had difficulties having his works accepted and problems with patrons.The discovery of this drawing will most likely raise the question that comes up every time a great master’s work is discovered under another – whether to destroy the surface painting to restore the new one…. But in this case, when there is another ‘copy’ and it was possibly not the artist’s wish to create the surface painting..
I have almost finished my professional website so I thought I would post the link here (as it has managed to get around to my family and a few others already!… I am going to flesh it out over a while but I needed something up to point to now.I am still doing some final tweaks but its Here: http://jennie.liquidpurple.comMind you, I tweak every website I make to DEATH… Or at least the ones for me..The great people at liquidpurple.com are to thank, brilliant free websites and email – the platinum plan for a whopping US$9.95 per year is very sexy indeed.
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