Mon to Fri 26 to 30 November
This was the week our art group had decided to hold a winter version of a summer school. We wanted to experience a week of painting - mornings only, as we all have other commitments to manage. Amanda was keen to go large, so on the Friday before we all went out for a girlie shopping trip to the woodyard and toolshop for plywood panels, nails, screws, brackets, white paint and brushes. Then Amanda and I got on with putting the panels together with reinforcing batons, mitred corners and everything.
We are lucky enough to have the use of Jessica and Spiros' Mamma Mia restaurant as a studio, as they are closed for most of the winter. It's a great space to have. We spent the first day, Monday, getting the panels painted white, in between doing some drawing exercises and thinking about composition.
The idea was to do a self-portrait - virtually full size, as the panels measure 170 by 110 cm. We sketched each other and took photos to decide poses on day 2, and the other two got the first splash of paint onto those scarily huge white spaces while I had to run around sorting out some payments. So my first splash was Weds morning.
By Friday we'd realised we would need a lot more time, but the paintings had been through a few metamorphoses, and were starting to shape up.
This is mine, so far:
This was the week our art group had decided to hold a winter version of a summer school. We wanted to experience a week of painting - mornings only, as we all have other commitments to manage. Amanda was keen to go large, so on the Friday before we all went out for a girlie shopping trip to the woodyard and toolshop for plywood panels, nails, screws, brackets, white paint and brushes. Then Amanda and I got on with putting the panels together with reinforcing batons, mitred corners and everything.
We are lucky enough to have the use of Jessica and Spiros' Mamma Mia restaurant as a studio, as they are closed for most of the winter. It's a great space to have. We spent the first day, Monday, getting the panels painted white, in between doing some drawing exercises and thinking about composition.
Me, Amanda, Jessica - ready to go
Driven mad by the stress of it all
Dave seeking solace with like-minded blokes in the yacht club
Beginning of day 3, paint on panels
Day 5, still loads to do
The idea was to do a self-portrait - virtually full size, as the panels measure 170 by 110 cm. We sketched each other and took photos to decide poses on day 2, and the other two got the first splash of paint onto those scarily huge white spaces while I had to run around sorting out some payments. So my first splash was Weds morning.
By Friday we'd realised we would need a lot more time, but the paintings had been through a few metamorphoses, and were starting to shape up.
This is mine, so far:
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