Saturday, June 23, 2012

An Unexpected Self Portrait

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I finally got sick of my own procrastination yesterday and decided to move a bunch of my works in progress into my lounge where I can't avoid them any more. After all, the main reason I didn't want my studio in my house was the fumes from the solvents I was using with oil paints. That's no longer a problem with acrylic! :D

The move back home was pure frackkin genius, I tell you!

I hung the blankest of my canvases on the work-area I've set up behind my garden door without actually intending to paint anything (what with admin and dishes to do), but an hour later I had a viable underpainting for a new piece. This is how it looks now, after about 5 hours of actual work (not including tea-breaks, sleep and watching Firefly reruns on my PC).

Still a work in progress but I'm fairly impressed with myself! (acrylic on canvas, 76cm x 62cm)
 I'm posting a few of the shots I took between stages of painting. I used my pallet knife pretty-much over the whole thing and it's just been so much fun to work with. Of course I used a lot of brushwork too but I'm really getting into this whole texture-paste thing!

10 minutes -ish. Pretty-much just the palette knife

About half an hour; starting to use the brush a bit.

About an hour or so.

I'd kinda lost track of time by this stage but it was about 10pm.

How it looked this morning as the sun came up. Yeah, having my studio at home in winter is frikkin AWESOME!

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