Monday 25th Jan 2010
Alan Painting 2, Well I am currently struggling with the ear! Already scraped it back once, and redone it. It now looks he has got a cauliflower ear and will probably do it again. He is also complaining of Sigmund Freud syndrome, that is I have given him a receding hairline! So that needs to be rectified.
What I want to know is how do you paint hair that makes you want to run your fingers through it? I have been looking at some Chuck Close Portraits, which is a bad thing to do really, as the detail in his work is absolutely staggering and must take years of practice. I want to be able to paint like that now!!! Which I also say” in my dreams!”
