Building Character

Still enjoying this one, it's mesmerising watching the pic emerge - time goes so fast on Tuesday evenings - and I come home covered in paint, well covered for me but no doubt Pro Hart would laugh at my claim, but I actually don't care, not about what Pro Hart would think, I don't care that I'm covered in paint which for me is a breakthru - well it maybe a bit of problem with the new white sheets so I'll have to scrub with art supply verison of solvol before I go to bed .. but I digress - here's the pic so far - currently I'm defining Freya. It will take me a few weeks of course because I'm terribly new at this but I can see the little darling emerge.

These days I sit in my lounge room from Tuesday to Tuesday staring unblinkingly at the current scratching and editing it in my mind - I'm loving loving loving this one but can't wait to get started on all the others that are currently queued in my head ...

Family

Oh I am loving this one - and I can't do faces which is ironic.

Well it was going to be 'stones' honest but it ended up being a portrait of Dirk & Freya taken at Sandon Xmas 2005 or was it six.. time is kind of bleeding together .... you have to remember I can't do faces but I am trying to learn. Which is of course why I'm paying someone to teach me.

More 'stones' will happen of course - but I don't need lessons for 'stones' and I can do 'stones' at home so there will always be 'stones' - I have many 'stones' to get out of my system. So, anyway I'm thinking maybe get with the program and get taught something while I have the chance ... like faces.

The canvas is crazy shaped - a metre by forty cms or something and I've cropped the pic something severe - even Linda my wonderful teacher has her doubts.... but I'm loving it! and I'm loving the Tuesday nights.

When it's finished I'm hoping I will have managed to show the wonderful connection between these two people. As general excuse for communication they squabble and bicker like 'Tom & Jerry' but they are so unbelievabley connected it's like natural magic...

What's I'm doing at the moment is just marking in the features - it bears little resemblance to how it should look but eventually it should develop into a likeness (OR TWO). At the moment I'm just roughly placing the features.

Oh god I hope it works ... Did I say I'm loving it?

Damn it would be wonderful to be paid to do this 24/7