Today's Work

Tuesday 23rd was the first day that I felt completely concentrated and settled within the course. I moved into the corridor, and expanded into a bigger space. This allowed me to be more visual; also expressing my work in different scale and feeling like I could do such, as the confined space within the classroom made me feel claustrophobic and unable to create due to the amount of people working in such a small area.

I spent the majority of the college day (10:30 - 4:30pm) on the oil painting (top right), which I had previously started as self expression on side of the diagnostic course, as I felt unmotivated within the diagnostic work. I wanted to create a piece expressing intimacy between two characters, swell as newly finding Sue Williams early work, which came as great inspiration for the background. I was able to concentrate and focus on the oil painting, focusing on depth and shadow mostly within the facial features.

After college, (4:30 - 8pm), I stayed and started working on separate pieces, trying to move from tight work within oil painting to loose, figurative motions. within this, I experimented heavily with colour, such as in the blue figure drawing (bottom photo, right hand side), and also used different materials to apply paint to the material, after leaving my acrylic brushes at home. This allowed me to venture into mark making with different materials, such as scraping sandpaper across a canvas and using paper soaked in blue watery acrylic to create a more dynamic backdrop for the sketch. I feel it could be improved proportionally, but allowed me to experiment massively.

Whilst waiting for layers of this to dry, I started upon a charcoal and newspaper acrylic piece, expressing a dynamic between two people on large sheets of brown paper. This was new for me, as I haven't before been in control of both the size, shape and relations of paper, and felt that using two slightly differing in size pieces of paper allowed me more control over composition and creating a slight disconnect between the two characters, juxtaposing their intimacy.

Tuesday 23rd November

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