Back to Brussels

So it's my first day back at home and I went into the centre of Brussels to try pick up some canvas to start another personal project. After traipsing around the city centre in the pouring rain trying to find 'Schleiper' on Zuidstraat- which is a well known Art Store in Belgium, I got to to the shop only to discover in that particular store they don't sell canvas by the meter - There was no way I was going to buy a large mounted canvas board and try manoeuvre that on the busy subway! The man in the store was really nice and spoke English, he told me I could buy canvas by the metre at their Chaussée de Charleroi store, however for some odd reason I thought that was miles away and when I got back home I discovered it was just around the corner!

Anyways, rant over - I shall be going back into the centre of Brussels tomorrow to buy myself some canvas! I really want to fire out another personal project this week whilst I'm at home, as the personal project I am working on at the moment is taking so long. I follow a good blog/site called This Is Colossal  (website) and I came across an amazing portrait artist, Andrew Salgado (website). Portraiture is probably  one of my favourite types of Art, as you can be in awe of a painting and not even know who the person is in the painting, they could have some connection with you and you might not even know it. So I have decided to paint my younger brother Alastair  in the style of Salgado. Hopefully this will help me to become more expressive and free in my style of painting as to be honest I am such a perfectionist!