Academic mentor meeting and painting,

Spoke to my academic mentor Ian, discussed studio access, and my personal schedule so that I can determine how to prioritise my MA around work and family commitments. Hoping that my new role of Community Engagement Assistant with Frameworks allows me to fund my studies but completely free up Monday, Tuesday and Friday for uni work. Discussed the following to determine how much time to afford different activities dependent on what I can pull out for the MA. I was considering engagement, networking and professional insight of funding and planning as being useful for my MA but I need to focus on the connections and dimensions around my own actual practice.

• Visiting artist
• MA_CAP Exhibition in ProjeCt space 
• Outloud and Vault of the revolting 

I'll schedule specific time to these to prevent them from impacting negatively on my uni time.

Had a studio chat with Poppy about her practice and a workshop in lithography that we'd both like to go to. She's getting details for when one may be available. We're both keen to run some prints/generate some sales from our practice so that we can create more funds whilst focusing on what we're making.

Reflecting on my 121, I rubbed over the more brushed textures of the painting and tried to sand down the large brush stroke on the top left and bottom right - not a great deal of success but I've repainted without rubbing back with thinners so they're less pretentious - they're painted over rather than emphasised.

Painting progress - using the smaller study and photo as references. Got to a place where I had to stop because I knew that if I carried on I'd struggle with what was already down.