I have been slack while we have been settling in and I have also been playing with some of my other favorite art forms, namely cooking and sewing. but I need to get going on my assignments so here is the first one. the assignment was to research artists who use multiples in some way.…
I forgot that I haven’t put up the reworked images that I did for the last folio. they are much better so I feel they deserve a look in. I felt like such an idiot worrying about a white on white still life when my computer table, monitor and computer already made up one! mark…
between the internet, foxtel and phone and the multiple moronic telstra people I had to deal with I am about ready to cry!the plan was that the foxtel guy would install the port for the internet at the same time as the foxtel port…. I spent over an hour on the day being shunted between departments while they all told me that they couldn’t issue the work order, and no he cant do that kind of work and why would someone tell me he could?… but at least I have a net connection!then there was the phone line.the previous owners installed an optus port and spack fillered over the old telstra port.
It has been a crazy few days with my 10 year reunion, assignments and crazy packing and real estate bodgyness. I have finished all my assignments but I still haven’t sent off my folio so I am kbitzing over my net connection in the new place. Will get back to normal programming soon – I promise!
it is very physically intensive no matter what you do so I am very tired now.I feel they let down some of my other assignments so I will take the next couple of days to fix them up – then I can set up my folio with impugnity…. they say they will have the internet up by then but I want to make sure I have allowed for telstra inefficiency and potential network issues (theoretically it should be as easy as reconnecting the router, modem and computers but where networking is considered nothing is set in stone)…. then I need to refine my diary, re-photograph all my works and visual diary and get the presentations together.That isn’t too much to do in two days…
it would probably be better if I didn’t have a lot of the house packed up.. then I could find better implements…I know it is supposed to be out of our comfort zones but sheesh.okok I was actually doing well until I found out that I needed a completely different subject, I was working off the wrong excersise.erg…. and about ten tries.I am going to have a scotch and go to bed now.
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..
Jennie's Palette 