Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Portrait 2: Brainstorming

For our next project I have come across many ideas and as I have been trained, worked through thoughts to develop one, stick to it and then go with all guns.

I believe I am missing the Point.

This is an art class, I am not here to make great works of art. Because lord knows I am far from doing anything of the sort. What I am here to do is learn. My main complaint was to get away from the vanity of doing another self portrait and looking at myself for another few weeks. But now I see that I will make mistakes, and there is no better mug to cut your teeth on than your own.

I have four main ideas:
(1) Sofija (shot of myself from behind holding my daughter).
(2) Hole (Shot of myself in a hole looking up)
(3) Vitruvian Man (personalisation and updating of Da Vinci's famous sketch)
(4) Comic book hero (personalisation of comic book art in oil)

I decided on number four (4) after spending the past three days sick and looking at Wolverine and the Xmen episodes on Netflix.

Elaine gave me one question: "Russel would you be able to attain the level of realism and detail that you would want?"

After an afternoon thinking about it I realise that she is right. As I self professed before "simpler is better", I would probably say more without going into so much literal detail. I will leave that type of process for when I am a self accomplished painter.

Given all the evidence of my technical work needing work, my painting development and my current emotional state; I believe that if I start simple and work in other elements through style and colour I will be able to create a piece that will forward my skill and be ripe with content.

Back to the drawing board, mind the pun ....

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