We're onto November into December now in this 'Catch Up' summary drawn over however many entries, and I'll do the same again rather than bombarding you eyes with a gajillion images at once.
But before I get too submerged in another x-number of entries of drawings, I thought I'd post something painted to break things up a little. There's quite a bit of painting to post, but I think thi, an soe of the others I'll slot in between the remaining work from 2009 I have to post, fit a little better than any of the more 'realised' full colour stuff.
This one is. . . Kind of an anomally. And huge, those figures are life-sized. On paper. I had started it months before, abandoned it, worked over it, disiked it, repainted parts, abandoned it some more. It was always a BIT sketchy and while a lot of it remains pretty sketchy, the figures became more fully realised, and thus the focus, and that was what I went back to and worked on until I declared 'done'
The backdrop again is sort of vaguely Dundee. It should really be Edinburgh, but I guess the architecture of Dundee is more ingrained into my sychological source material when it comes to drawin buildings. Especially Perth Road, a long road I must have walked thousands of times my four years at art school. . .
I liked to think of this as not two people standing in front of some distant buildings as two people standing in front of a painting of some distant buildings. And again, bear that in mind, it's an element in some of what I go on to paint next. . .
I like it. The depiction of Emm is far more 2002 than 2009 - rounder face and so on - but i chose not to get finnicky and correct that. Actually, I kind of like that about it. . .
I'm *so* glad you posted this one! I was sur eyou wouldn't because you couldn't get photos you liked of it.
ReplyDeleteI love it, you know I do. I think its one of those pictures where you captured us both perfectly, even if it is more my younger self. ;)
Beautiful. I was so relieved when you decided you'd finished this though. :P
i think in order to GET decent photographs of this you'd need to drag it outside and attempt to somehow affix it to a wall, and. . . let's face it, can you see me doing that?
ReplyDeletelike i've said though, i've every intention of doing something along these lines on canvas, huge, sometime. . .
Life size? Very impressive. I've never attempted anything on that scale.
ReplyDeleteI love this because it's so complete - detailed where it needs to be, WITH a background (which looks really good), and more like a painting in other places. That's an interesting idea - you've really got me wondering where you're going with that in what you "go on to paint next..."
I like seeing architecture from you. I like the sketchy style. This is one of my favorite paintings from you, though I'm sure that will change (because I'm enthusiastic and because you're very good) as you continue to post. This is a great painting.
thanks, bron :)
ReplyDeleteyeah, life-sized. it's currently on my living room wall because i sort of. . grudge rolling it up which is about all you can do with such a big piece of paper when there's no wall space left because you've got x-number of canvasses taking up every inch. . .
the architecture in this really WAS pretty much sketched in and left, it's the one part i didn't go back and work on because i liked it that way - i'm never going to have the capacity to do solid bold and realistic looking buildings, and that's okay. stylised and sketchy is good. it's ME. . .
This one's so fantastic!!!! I love it! It's really that big?
ReplyDeleteYou're so talented! :)