Personal Project Day 3

I'm quite pleased with my progress so far on my painting of the 'Bruderkuss,' I feel I got a lot done today but I'm not sure if I should have got further? Still need to sort of Erich Honecker's skin tone - it isn't looking to fabby ... he looks a bit anemic!
However, that's me finished on my personal project until panto is over as tomorrow we get the Palace Window Flats - wooo! So I will update on my personal project after the panto.

Personal Project Day 2

I didn't really get as far as I would have like today, would have really have liked have got most definition in at least one of the leaders, but heyho thats how the cookie crumbles and I will have to pick up the pace tomorrow. I got told I wasn't using a big enough brush so will definitely use bigger then a 1inch tomorrow as I have to get used to working on a big scale. I don't think my colour mixing was that great today, so need to spend a little more time making sure I get the right tones! Aim for tomorrow: get a least Erich Honecker completely finished and get Leonid Brezhnev skin tone started!

Berlin Wall Personal Project

Getting really into my personal project. I'm really happy i decided to work big as it allows me to be free and as Gary always says 'you're less likely to see a mistake on a much larger scale.'


The only problem I am facing so far is my technique, in my reference the black suits look really flat but I feel having more brush strokes in the black gives it more character ... so I am in a bit of pickle because I keep on doing both! Also I'm putting too much paint on my paint brush and this is causing dribbles all over my work - silly Saz!

So here is my progress so far:

initial charcoal sketch 

inking in and putting the background colour in

end of the day!

A step backwards

Wahoo we finished the throne! I'm rather pleased with the overall finish, even though in the photo you can't really see the stone texture that Sophie and I created by rolling crushed up newsprint across it.

Oh dear just when we were just getting into the swing of things, picking up the pace and really getting into the panto we've had to take a step backwards instead of a step forward :( Why I hear you cry? Well there is just not enough stuff for us to paint, and now construction have to spend all there time making the largest flat (the palace scene) so we have nothing to do up until Thursday :( As a result we have been allowed to start some personal projects. I have decided to paint a section of the Berlin Wall, 'Bruderkiss' - the famous painting by Russian Artist, Dmitri Vrubel depicts the iconic image of East Germany's Leader Erich Honecker and the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sharing a kiss. I choose this as I want to get better at drawing on a larger scale, I like how its rather controversial and I think I'll be able to execute some good scenic art skills in this piece.