Finally i managed to buy the material and construct my canvas ready for my final degree project. There are 4 Canvases in total that are about 5ft high. This is my first time on working on large scale canvases. Creating images onto a large scale can seem very daunting for the first time especially when like me, you don’t use squares to scale up your drawings.
I primed my canvases with a magnolia emulsion, to keep the raw colour of the original material. (in case i chose not to darken my background.)
I took these canvases home, and was contemplating what i should paint. But i suppose i was reluctant in doing so as the canvases where larger than anything i had worked on before and they where new so i wanted to make sure i was doing the wright thing.
This was until my 2 year old daughter came to see what i was doing and naturally picked up one of my paint brushes and tried to paint on my canvas. Which made me re-think, if a 2 year old can just walk up to a canvas that large and just put brush to canvas then so could i. So that’s what i started to do.
