One arty thing a day…

My new meds are making me so sleepy and pathetic I have to set myself some tasks to make sure I accomplish things.First and foremost are my assignments obviously – I needed an extension on my second art history essay (the impact of the Flemish renaissance on painting) due to these stupid drugs which made me more or less useless while I got used to them. Anyway, I have had a productive day today and completed one of my photography assignments as well as making some good headway on my art history essay…. As part of my destressing, assigning tasks, and general art work, I am going to create one art piece per day.

It’s like Christmas!!

I have found a Super Cheap art supply place. they sell amatuer and professional gear and have the best priced canvasses and easles I have ever seen!!drool60 odd dollars later Liam and I emerged with 6 canvasses, a drawing board with clips, a new sketchpad, charcoal, kneadable erasers and a huge pot of gesso.YAY!I am going to be experimenting with impasto and quick techniques as well as playing wth more sketching. I may even move to more contemporary and abstract pieces now that I can plan them out on a big sketchboard.I even dreampt about it this morning.

Slack slack slack

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.

Oo Dark

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…

Pink Nude – No idea what to call her yet.

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…

The urge takes over

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!

I see the Light!!

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…

Progressing…Slowly

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.

Just for fun..

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.

One Year On, My Thoughts…

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.