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.
