Thursday 21 April 2011

Course work: After a period of indecisiveness, I resumed work on the Project Two painting, which I think is now finished.  Unfortunately, I think that it is also overworked, and probably over-planned.  The tones are close to those that I saw, and the shapes and the perspective are reasonably close, but I think in retrospect that I should have exaggerated the tones for effect.  The brushwork varies from tentative to overworked. In summary, I think that this is one of the less-interesting  paintings that I’ve done for the course, even though it looks very like the subject..   I will try to do the next project in a few long sessions, instead of a larger number of short sessions, as it seems that working in the latter manner causes me to concentrate on detail and miss the essence of the painting. 

Reading and theoretical studies:

Matthew Collings This is Modern Art

Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1999

Pp. 200-222

Sketchbook work: Some blown-ink-drop experiments using acrylic ink and non-waterproof drawing ink.  Although my sample is too small to be valid, the most interesting result so far was obtained with the India ink.