Yesterday sketch life drawing with the model
Yes, this is not Venus. This body doesn't compete with today mass media image of a woman's body. The body/shell doesn't reflect who we are, how we feel, but yet we are ready to form an opinion of who we think she could be. What do I see? There is peace, there is humility, there is compassion. Acceptance of what we have become.
Photos from the Opening reception at Bliss Cafe' Worcester
180 degree view of the exhibition
Hanging the Exhibition at the Worcester Arts Workshop
Sue Firmin and I hanging our paintings.The exhibition is from 20th May to the 20th June 2014
Worcester May 23rd 2014 Exhibition Opening
Exhibiting a small body of figurative work in different styles.
A new painting
In a society where the outside look is "important", beautiful bodies, are just shells, the inner scars, the hurt souls cannot hide behind a shell, the signs exist, we show them inevitably, we live with it: our acceptance of our human imperfection.
How the abstract talked to me.....
This film shows how an abstract mono print made earlier with a gelatine plate, "spoke" to me and it developed into the piece you see below....
Work in progress
The journey to abstracting the figure is on and here are my latest w.i.p.
Towards abstraction of the figure
I have embarked on a long journey: abstracting the figure. I love the human forms and the poses give me ground to dig into my soul. I am painting with scratches and scribbles which represent the scars we all carry on our bodies as well as the emotional scars in our hearts. The figures are surreal: they are my feelings, my thoughts. The painting below is part of this journey.
working between an oil and a mix media
Work in progress.... left oil portrait of my beautiful friend Paige and below one of my figurative inspirations in mix media.
Using IPad for life drawing sketch
Every week I take life drawing at the Malvern School of Art, sometimes I use my iPad for sketching, it is still a learning curve for me, as I have not had any training. I am having a great time experimenting and discovering all the tools this software has to offer. Below is an image from my iPad sketch book .
From my studio
These are some of my tools, just a glimpse of a table that gets smaller every day... What is brewing in the studio? A variety of experiments on drawing with various techniques, creating mono-type prints on gelatine plate. There is a lot going on as I do not want to get bored working on a specific piece, so I work from one piece to another; that refreshes how I see the pieces when I go back to work on them. I shall soon post some of the "working in progress" Hope you join me on my blog: my journey in making art.
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