Pleased with this...
...so want to share it.
It's inspired by Fantin-Latour's 'Homage to Delacriox'.
But mine's called 'Homage to Individual Agency'. A self-reminder of my hope that I can liberate myself from bullshit: external, doctrinal and internal.
It's possible that a few of the faces may be recognisable to some of you. Others, less so...
Basically it's my ideal dinner party. :-D
It's inspired by Fantin-Latour's 'Homage to Delacriox'.
But mine's called 'Homage to Individual Agency'. A self-reminder of my hope that I can liberate myself from bullshit: external, doctrinal and internal.
It's possible that a few of the faces may be recognisable to some of you. Others, less so...
Basically it's my ideal dinner party. :-D
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I’ve started an FdA course in fine arts this year. So getting lots of opportunity to draw.
We’ll have to run a competition! ;-D
It's been a real gift to myself to get on this FdA in Fine Arts.
I was "fortunate" enough to be made redundant a few years ago (when the pupil exclusion unit that I was teaching in was closed down), and I received a settlement payment. A couple of years ago a friend and I renovated a terraced house in Gloucester and made a few quid. Together those two lump sums have enabled me to pay the course fees and cut back on work a bit so I can get to college 3 days a week for a couple of years. Absolutely loving it.
Perhaps a bit like you CJ, back in the day art was my main identifier. But, life took me another direction, and I haven't really done it seriously since I was 18 (in 1992).
For me it's been like getting back in touch with a part of me that I've too long neglected. (I was genuinely tearful when I was accepted on to the course about a year ago to start in September 2019.)
It's a two year FdA course at Stroud College, with the option of a 3rd year at either Bristol or Cheltenham. I am hoping to take up that option.
I appreciate your affirmations fellas. I feel a certain revolting narcissism (as well as a wholesome pride) in putting my own efforts out there, so it's a relief that you folk are not too off-put by my "sharing". :-)
Refugees in Libyan Detention Centre
(Tho I am going to make a donation to a refugee charity with the proceeds of the sale.)
Yes, the light - shade was one of the key points of that piece. Pretty pleased with the light falling on the face on the left. Less so the chap on the right. But it'll do.
I’ve got a couple more to do before moving on from this series, so please have further political comments at the ready. :-)
Yes. All oils on board. The portraits are about A4. The others are quite big. About a metre wide.
It’s plonked on the radiator in the living room atm. I can see a few little things I need to tweak, but overall I’m happy with the way it turned out.
I’m doing a series of works on refugees and economic migration, and want to make sure that I include various different facets: In this case diligence and family (as well as trauma and plight), so I’m pleased you’ve mentioned the expressions on the women’s faces.
In the case of the refugees working, the size was a bugger when it came to the ladies’ faces. They were too big to render roughly (though I did so with the kids’), but small enough to be fiddly. So that was a learning point! Avoid heads in the 10-15cm size range! :-D
The one I’m doing this week has a composition that allows for relatively larger faces, and it feels more enjoyable to be painting those.
A true connoisseur, you are, mate
Latest jobbie...
'Grandmother and Child'
(Just one or two more to go in this series.)
This one is in my conservatory, and is a painting of my wife putting a face mask on a 3D self-portrait I made a few months back.
Make of it what you will.
I don't have a name for it.
And, the accompanying music and drink sound spot on!
I like it, but it's one of those I'd skip having on my wall :-)
Last in my little series of 5 paintings on refugees.
This one took bloomin' ages to get it so I'm OK with it.
(Fingers crossed it passes the "Dave's wall" test.)