Sunday, 31 August 2008

My Art Update

I'm finding this surprisingly hard to finish the piece for the exhibition. The bit on the bottom right hand corner has been a real challenge. I want to have an overlay that blocks out some of the images but it was made more difficult because I am inexperienced with pastels and didn't realise that anything I put on top of them slides around due to the oil in them. So I had to use ink and it still slides. That's the technical challenge. The emotional challenge is what is causing the angst. I found it difficult to drop the red ink on to the figure and there was a bid pool of red ink around the heart area that I thought was way too big. Then I tried to move it and the red ink bleed right up to where my symbols of Angels at the top were. I'm putting the unconcieved children on the left hand side boxes and that was hard as well. Id like to put their names there too. There is alot time in between waiting for things to dry. So in a way the fluidity is working the way it should. That I have to wait and it gives me time to process stuff, and make use of the marks that have been placed there unintentionally.

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