Negotiated Projects

Well today has been very productive, and I am so happy that  I am much further on with both projects.

Not going to lie, I HATE the perspective painting - I really feel I have let myself down. I have spent so so so long on it and it's not my best work, additionally I also think it looks really amateur. On Friday when I was painting all I could think is that I don't even think I want it in my portfolio. As I was/am rather behind on my negotiated project I am just going to have to leave my painting as it is, and after I've handed it in and got it back, I am going to work at it while I'm back in my flat until I'm happy with it.

On the other hand, I am rather pleased how the painting of my brother is going. It has been fun being expressive compared to being a perfectionist. Painting in the style of Andrew Salgado has loosen me up and made me quicker, which I am very happy about as I am normally so slow!

 I had to stop painting around 8ish tonight, as I felt I was getting rather tired and I was scared I was going to make silly mistakes.

Not really to sure what I will be up to tomorrow, there is meant to be a paintcall down the road for Macbeth, but as we have several first years in and I guess they will be doing it to get some experience. So hopefully tomorrow I will get time to finish both my paintings!

Negotiated Project day 4

Lindt Factory

My Brother eating a Bratwurst in Aachen

It's so good to be home and being really daft with my brother and sisters. Everyone I talk to thinks my family are bats, and that we have the craziest stories every! Anyways as the my brother and sisters are back I have being swaying away from my negotiated project! On Saturday I went to the German Market in Aachen which was good fun and we also popped into the Lindt factory store ... NOMNOM! However, today I hopped back down to the basement and went with a new P.O.A!

Negotiated Project

Today I successfully manage to find Schleiper on Chaussée de Charleroi and it was the best Art Store I have ever been to! It was absolutely massive (much bigger then Dom Knigi in Moscow) and was a 100x more stocked then any Art store in Glasgow. I picked up quite alot for €60 - canvas, acrylics, paint brushes, 2 pallette knives and a medium to create texture.

Andrew Salgado - Parenthesis

So now I am ready to start painting my next personal project. After browsing for quite a while gawking at Andrew Salgado paintings, I have decided to replicate his painting of the 'Parenthesis' as the portrait actually looks quite scarily like my brother Alastair! I have worked out that I have 6 full days to finish the painting until I leave Belgium on the 28th of December, so I am going to work really hard to meet this deadline!

My brother, Alastair

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!