Jeremy Hastings PHD; "See: Saw" activity, and painting testing with blur

Jeremy Hastings PHD activity was really interesting. He shared slides of photographs taken from his walking practice and we had a group discussion. I have some details to take a further look at his practice.

          

This is very much a painting where you have to trust the process.. I enjoy the wiping and layering  - at the moment - I'm happy with the boy on the left in the background and trying to figure out the witch behind the main figures.  I have to remind myself to step away because some things work well with wet paint and other things need the paint to be dry to go again. some of the positioning is slightly off but its not significant for the testing and is interesting to me too.

                                    

At this point I'm wondering wether to go straight into a big painting on canvas or keep investing in this.. I could do both.

Spent some time on art UK finding paintings of witches and tagging them - came across Walpurgisnacht - it's really helpful tagging because I can see what other artists have worked on in terms of subject matter and recording witches. Have confirmed my mentor meeting with Katey Goodwin today too.