I’m exhausted! I’ve started to paint and get rid of the white on my large canvas. It’s taken a lot of my energy moving the paint around a surface this big.
A few things have come up while I’ve been doing this.
I’ve decided to paint the basics of this painting quite formally. The room is the structure which holds the flesh down. It is important to look hard and get this right from the word go or from experience (painting ‘Introspection’ last year) it will upset the painting as a whole at the end.
I will de-formalise these areas later – make them look less ruled.
The interior aspect is something I’ve not had to think about so far in my project. Every other painting I have created have been zoomed in on areas of flesh.
This is the first time I have had to consider the contrast of flesh and flesh in a space. I don’t want the interior to distract from my flesh.
I feel a bit like a Masterchef contestant when they decide to make something they’ve never cooked before in the final! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? Is this the time to be trying something, I’ve never done before in the context of this project in the last few painting days I have left?
As those contestants on my favourite cookery program say, “I’m not going to get anywhere playing it safe!”
True, true. However I have also made a marquette of my painting today to try and get a painterly visual of what I’m aiming for.
I’m really excited about the contrast between the blue and orange. The orange top was a conscience decision whilst styling the image, to add an element of optimism into the piece which will conclude what has been an emotional and sometimes dark explorational project.
