I painted a friend who i don’t see everyday yesterday. I am still hoping to go onto painting strangers, but to start with it’s best working with people who i am acquainted with whilst i compose and prepare myself for what i want to depict.
I feel i had a breakthrough.
Tutorial tomorrow, will post more then.
I don’t see myself as a portrait painter. But i have been strongly advised to stop the painting from photography and paint from life.
So this past week, i have.
I am still looking for a way to tie it all together, but i feel a lot happier in myself for getting up the courage to work in this way and get over the boundary and pressure of creating an exact replication of who is sat before me- it is an interpretation, an expression that i want to create.
To still keep the freshness and ambiguity of some of my other work, i’m toying with the idea of getting strangers to sit for me (but i know this is going to prove difficult). I am receiving feedback from my tutor this week, so i will keep you posted of his views on the change.
Okay, i’m stressed.
Haven’t been on here in the past month as after my portfolio assessment i decided that i pretty much hate my semesters worth of work (don’t worry, i haven’t done anything drastic! And it wasn’t that my feedback was bad, i just feel as though what i produced could’ve been better…it wasn’t really me). I suppose this decision is better late than never- at least i haven’t realised this after the degree show eh? But it means i have a lot on my plate with what to produce now for the exhibition!!
The paintings shown here are 4 key pieces from last semester that i do like.They are my new starting point, and from them i have turned over a new page, and looked up Lucian Freud’s work in more depth (i am in love with it!), as well as some of Walter Sickert’s paintings, Josef Herman’s sketches and Reginald Marsh’s depictions of New York.
Wish me luck!
