just noticed two things: the painting at the bottom of this blog ‘then i went travelling’ is the one taken before i put the eyelashes on the left eye. so its not the finished piece. libel and slander!
olivia looks as if she has applied a leyer of fake tan to her face, and has gone a strange teabag induced colour as a result. must recify!
hello!
hhmmm.. ok, i did some dissertation work over the weekend, up to 2290 words, just the same amount again.
was up working on the first skull painting last night, it looks good. it was quite easy, actually, only took a couple of hours (it’s acrylic). it occured to me that the skulls are the only paintings which have any chance of actually selling at the degree show, because i can’t imagine anyone wanting a portrait of someone they don’t know on their wall, unless its a dealer or something, but even so, they aren’t very saleable. maybe i’ll get some commissions from people who want to be flattered. great.
we where given a pricing guide by the school of art. all work is to be priced according to size, which seems completely obsurd to me. on that scale my skulls are up to £110, which is great, but my portraits are up to £160, which is not so great, considering the art school takes 35%. so thats means, even if i priced them above what the art school recomends, at say, £200, i still only get £130. i know i’m unknown, etc, etc, but i do have dignity and a sence of what my work is worth.
went into the art school today, put another layer on both the portraits, and finished helen’s, i think. (!) i changed the colour on mine, as i was looking a lot greener than the average person, if you know what i mean.
ok, i think thats it for today, i’m going to miss doing this blog when its all over. its a chance to have a bit of a rant and get it al of my chest, all those ideas which otherwise float about in a disconnected fashion.
made the canvases, and primed them. just at the library, doing research for dissertation.
actually, i’m doing no such thing. i’m writing this and generally procrastinating until the inevitable moment when i actually have to do the essay. dum de dum… wonder whats on the telly tonight… the apprentice was good yesterday.
oh for goodness sake emily go and do some work….
just noticed: olivias’s right hand side eye is loking the wrong way a bit. hehe!
i thought i’d finished hwlwn today, i’d even signed it, but now i’m not entirely sure. think her forehead could do with some very faint lines or something, it looks a bit plastic at the moment. just found that i don’t have another tutorial until after my degree show, which is seriously unhelpful!
tommorow i’m picking up the canvas’s for the skull paintings, or the base for them anyway, i’ve got to put the beading on, strech and prime them myself. all the hard work, and nobody notices! they would notice if it was put together poorly though.
worked on both paintings today, it seems to be a pattern that one goes smoother than the other, at the moment the one of olivia is going very smoothly, mine is going to be a bit more uphill, i think. anyway, they are both wet at the moment so i need to give them a couple of days to dry, so i can get on with the skulls and my dissertation. the dissertation is mindnumbingly boring. i hate analising myself.
