25/11/2012
As it was nice outside (for a very brief period) I spent a large part of the day in the garden; and when I wasn’t there I was working on the computer.
26/11/2012
I had to a get a work ready for an exhibition a friend has invited me to participate in. This was then packaged and posted off – then a break from the world of art to bath the rabbit. I finally got into my studio and started working on the remaining two long pictures (both of these are substantially longer than the previous ones). I put in the structural blocks – yes we are back to putting images within structures! – on both works using thin charcoal. One work is entitled DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME ATHENA SAVED ME FROM ARES? and the other is called I FELL APART IN THE MIDDLE BUT GOT MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE END.
DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME ATHENA SAVED ME FROM ARES? – work in progress
I FELL APART IN THE MIDDLE BUT GOT MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE END – work in progress
27/11/2012
I worked again on DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME ATHENA SAVED ME FROM ARES? and I FELL APART IN THE MIDDLE BUT GOT MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE END. I went over the charcoal lines with paint (while listening to cricket highlights on the computer!) and then roughly washed over these areas with yellow oxide – I went beyond the lines and then wiped part of the painted areas with a wet cloth. Tomorrow I will go over one set of blocks with yellow and the other probably with white (or possibly unbleached titanium).
I also have to prepare two more pictures for another exhibition. Although hopefully this time I wont have to stop to bath the rabbit!
DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME ATHENA SAVED ME FROM ARES? and I FELL APART IN THE MIDDLE BUT GOT MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE END.
28/11/2012
I painted over the structural blocks on DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME ATHENA SAVED ME FROM ARES? and I FELL APART IN THE MIDDLE BUT GOT MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE END. I used Azo yellow for the former and shades of yellow oxide for the latter.
I got the previously mentioned pictures ready for the exhibition quite quickly in the end as I used two that were already framed – typically after going a through a huge pile of unframed pieces!
DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TIME ATHENA SAVED ME FROM ARES? and I FELL APART IN THE MIDDLE BUT GOT MYSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AT THE END – work in progress
29/11/2012
I was planning to start work on some of the long pictures started last week but didn’t feel like it when I sat down in my studio – I never used to be this undisciplined! Instead I did the drawing stage of IMPROVISATION WITH LINE THROUGH THE MIDDLE – STARTING WHITE, ENDING GREY using thinned acrylic paint. This is obviously a quicker process than working in pencil first and then over painting, although it is less flexible. Anyway I completed this stage by the end of the day. It could have been thematically and stylistically distinct from what I normally do but it got more typical as the work progressed.
IMPROVISATION WITH LINE THROUGH THE MIDDLE – STARTING WHITE, ENDING GREY – work in progress
30/11/2012
I didn’t have a huge amount of time in my studio. However I had enough to more or less do the drawing stage of yesterday’s pendant work: IMPROVISATION BEHIND A ROW OF OPEN PLAN BUILDINGS. Again I used thinned acrylic paint.
IMPROVISATION BEHIND A ROW OF OPEN PLAN BUILDINGS – work in progress
01/12/2012
I went to town in the morning and then I had a string of horrendous odd jobs: like cleaning out the turtle tank (plus half the frog tank; I have the rest of this to look forward to!). I did some writing and other work on the computers from mid afternoon onwards.
Gerald's space 