My paintings are wet.. must be time to do another one.

 

I've really enjoyed doing the studies from the witch photograph - being much more loose and playing with detail and blurring. My aim now is to just keep painting and focus on this practical research over the next month or so- then I'll go back to my reading list ( I do keep popping in but want to really focus on this)

This one felt like fighting again - I really wanted the loose shapes and tones but I can see how I've fallen away from the original sketch,

I know its a fight between the lines and the tones. 

A drawing works as a drawing but painting is totally different and I have to essentially build it into being and the lines become distractions - because I literally don't paint them - I blur them - in make tones meet in a place but I don't paint the lines that you'd reference in a drawing. 

I'll figure it out. 

This is Jack with wotsits in his mouth, like a monster with wotsit teeth. I'm really drawn to the imagination and escapism of children - it relates to the witch and experience because they're all formative experiences that we have and in our culture we're introduced to ideas of the witch and monsters as children.

Spent some time this afternoon sending out invites for artist talks to Will Ntiamoah, Jioni Warner and Lucy Wright and was able to book 2 dates straight away. 

Sent some coms out on Teams re the ProjeCt space yesterday - not much back at the moment......: