Back to the brushes.
After a strange start to last week I locked myself indoors and did some work on the five paintings I’d started the week before. My new method of working involves being far more precise than I ever have been, but so far it seems to be working for me, and I can spread myself between more pieces as each dries in turn. Having a high amount of detail in the unfinished pieces lets me imagine them in relation to each other as well as the ones I’ve yet to start; as they’ve got to work as a group it’s quite useful.
It’s time to start blocking up the limewood for the sculpture, as I’m happy enough with Phil’s clay model at the moment… it’ll be interesting doing that tomorrow, hopefully with lots of assistance from the tutor who conveniently happens to specialise in wood carving! A bit cheeky after making such a pig’s ear of the crit last week, I know.
I think I’ll need to do some drawing overnight to work through some ideas for the final sculpture, as a likeness alone isn’t what I’m after, and that’s all the clay model is. I’m envisioning lowering the cutoff to further down the chest, but not necessarily with wood. A lot of it may be in the positioning, but I don’t know yet. Lots of thinking aloud – on paper.
Meanwhile, tomorrow will bring my first real work as the student rep. I’ve jotted down some of the group’s feedback to pass on to the staff in the meeting; here’s hoping it goes smoothly. I’m also to write down We may also be joined on the course by a new student who’s giving us a look over tomorrow – we’re to try our best to appear normal so as not to scare her off. Well, we can but try.
