Reflection
on the past two weeks, 24th January 2017
Having restarted reasonably
well, I sadly faltered almost immediately, going down with an infection. The
combination of that and strong antibiotics knocked me out for a couple of
weeks. I tried to get back into the print room last Friday to carry on with the
Mabgate drypoint, but due to a mix-up it turned out to be booked out for BA
students so I couldn’t get in. Ho hum. In the end I did a bit of mark making.
Feeling under pressure due to losing so much time, I started an acrylic painting on paper on Saturday. I was aware when I was doing it that I was a bit rushed and I didn’t quite know what I was doing. When I looked at it the next morning, I knew it was time to hit the brakes. I hadn’t tested the composition and I hadn’t tested the paint mixing. Would I ever have put a computer program live without testing? No. A wake up call – get back to my proper working processes… develop, test, think, act, review, repeat.
So I’ve done a bit
more mark making, and I quite like one of the results. I need to experiment
with it further, then hopefully it could work up into perhaps acrylic and/or
oil pastel and/or pastel. The earlier marks I made could also come into this
piece or possibly a piece of their own. I feel a bit more organised and hopeful,
but there’s a lot more thinking to do.
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| Possibilities.... |
Something more
positive is that I’ve volunteered to help with the organisation of the End of
Year show. We don’t yet know when it will be, so planning is a bit difficult,
but we’ve already identified tasks that need doing. I’ve set us up a twitter
account, though there’s not a lot to tweet at the moment, but we are ready when
there is!
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