finished kate wahoo….
helen is nearly done, a few problems need to be ironed out though. john (my tutor) thinks that her nose is slightly out of joint, and her left hand side nostril needs to move to the left a bit more, and to be a bit bigger. left to do on her is: her lashes, the nose, and to darken her teeth a bit. i’m going away this week, but i’ll be taking the next set of photos, ready for when i get back. they will be of me and my friend alex. john said he dosnt think it matters that my exhibition will be all females, that it adds to the concept, because its about beauty and the decaying of the blossoming flower, as it where, rather than the death of heroism or other manly attributes. if thats the way that its read, then that’s fine, as long as it dosn’t look like some kind of feminist statement then i’m happy. john aslso suggested that rather than putting the paintings all in a row, with ther skulls inbetween, that i could put the skulls underneath the big paintings, which is more relevent to historical depictions anyway. death lower to the ground, so to speak. the skulls are going to be quite quick and sketchy, which will provide a contrast to the portraits but also be a metaphor for the seped of decay.
