6th January, 2011.
This is now my last module, and that is a scary thought! Where have the last 2 and half years gone! I have got 20 weeks or so until the degree show. My topic for this module, after a lot of thought I wanted to slightly shift my topic from masks and identity, to that of a dialogue. I have thought about what happens in social gatherings like pubs and cafes, or even football matches. I want to look at something that tells a story, the unspoken word so to speak. I want to look at the interaction and what captures your attention when you first look upon a scene.
I will start by doing research through my own personal collection of photos, as well as internet research. I will also undertake field research by going to pubs and cafes and do sketches and take photos.
For once I will put all my ideas and sketches down in a book before doing anything else. Then I will paint a selection of some of the sketches on small scale with either water colour or acrylic. Then I will make a selection that tells a narration on a larger scale in oils. That’s the plan anyway. I’d better put the resuscitation equipment in my studio at college, as Joe my tutor may very well have a heart attack If I do what I have actually outlined!!
9th January, 2011.
Well it has been a couple of days, and I have so far trawled through 25years of photos, looked on the internet. I also went to Liverpool on Friday afternoon gone, I took Alan, we went into some pubs, any excuse! I felt a complete idiot, with the sketch book and camera, but I did it, and got some decent images. I have also filled an a4 sketch book, I have never done that!! I can’t wait to see Joes face on Monday. I have lots of ideas from it, and it will be good to do some small paintings of the sketches.
