Artist Michael Landy came to UCS not long ago, and talked to us about his art career from when he had a piece of work selected on the BBC TV show ‘Take Hart’, and how his career went from that until now. One particular part about his work that really interested me was he done a series sketches of his dad and other close relations to him.
At the National Portrait Gallery a display of portrait drawings by Landy; selected from a larger group of drawings of friends and family, this is a project that occupied Landy for over a year. He drew someone every day, for eight hours, seven days a week.
Before the talk I was thinking about doing this idea to document my emotioins each day, I am yet to start this, but I am going to start in the next couple of days. The only time I am going to draw is when I feel is the right time, what ever triggers a certain emotion that I felt needs to be transcribed onto paper. Some days I feel up and down and I feel I need to draw the people who trigger my emotions, or even objects. It may not even be my whole face I need to draw maybe a cheek and toe nail. I am not going to keep the sketchbook full to the brim of friends, family and personal objects, anything that come to mind.
I have not started the final pieces yet, so I feel documenting my emotions until the preparation for the final show would be a great way to show how the paintings I create develop into the how the paint looks, the colour etc.
