¡ POR FIN !

At last, having fought many fights with Maz's mouth I think I have finally finished this peice. Perhaps I may tinker with the background between fountain and Maz, but thats nothing major. Phew. well, it took me considerably longer than one week but it was worth it I think. A title? ah, well, still thinking on that one. I do like a good title !

Next problem? what project shall I attempt next? Have to think about that one and will post it when I have it. Come back soon.

OH, DEAR GOD !!

O.K. some of you might say this has got out of hand now. There have been multiple changes to it since my last blogpost but to cut a long story short, this is where it is currently standing.

On the good news front, and we must always seek out good news, yesterday I had an interview for the M.A. Fine Art at DeMontfort University and was offered a place !! So thats the next two years set out for me (Im doing it part time as there is no funding for it).

But back to the matter in hand. To think I could do this in one week was overly optomistic perhaps. I get the feeling that this work will never actually end and will stalk me forever and ever till the end of time...........o.k. thats a bit ridiculous since obviously the great Norse God Thor will smite his mighty hammer and upset the apple cart a while before that happens....... ! ?

ITS THE LITTLE THINGS.....

Its the little changes that now matter I feel. I have tweeked with the nude female quite a lot as it clearly wasnt correct. How I hate how that correctness has to be pampered to within me. I fight it as much as I can but often, as in this case, what was probably good enough for a contemporary painting just wasnt good enough for me. Rest assured it wont be the last thing to suffer this fate in this particular painting. Anyway, the work now looks like this:

I was asked yesterday who all the people were so lets put that to bed here. Left to right: Maz. Invented woman. Rafael Peralbo Cano. Invented nude man (but based on my idea of me....more fat than muscle.). Invented distressed man (from a time when I was distressed, so perhaps illustrates a past me?). All things must pass, so onwards and upwards and lets see who appears next! Come back, same bat-place, same bat-channel to find out.

TRYPTICK TAKES A TURN........

Well, I started playing with it today.......the canvas that is..........and it has changed considerably! It felt so good once it started to gell. Just putting people in, even if some are meant to be statuary. The act of painting the human just makes me feel so much better. All that uptightness in my tummy and chest that tells me something is wrong with the painting just dissipates and I feel I can breathe again.

TRYPTICH GOES TO POT !

Well, its a good thing that nothing depends on me making a painting a week ! This one has gone completely down the pan so stay tuned to see if it gets any worse......or any better.......or maybe it will just get flushed away completely and be reborn as something else. Who knows? Stay tuned, same bat-place, same bat-time, same bat-channel..........!!

THE TRYPICH GOES AWRY

Well, already I have failed in my challenge as the tryptich is not going well. It looks almost completed yet at the same time it looks like its laboured, not living, too much like a postcard. So its back to the drawing board !! Come back next week to see how, or if, it has changed.

I did a few brushstrokes on other bad paintings in my home studio yesterday and, oh, it felt soooo good. Dont ever let anyone tell you that producing art isnt therapy. Of course it is ! Im miserable without it, although of course, when the piece isnt working that also makes me miserable............but I know that it will get better eventually. So Im confident that this particular piece will eventually be so much better.

ART IN ISOLATION

Making art outside of a group setting/studio, such as an artists collective or even university is really quite hard to get into. Without feedback from contemporaries I find it dificult to decide what is wrong with a piece and therefore put it right. However, I have to have a challenge and so I have decided to make a piece of art at least once a week and, if I can work out the technicalities, publish an image of it on this blog as well as place it on my website, www.art-cell.com . I am currently working on a tryptich which ought to be completed by the end of this week, so it should be the first to be uploaded.