Chairs Are Great.

Acrylic paint on mdf, size unknown.

'Totem Cityscape II'. This piece relates back to my previous blog post; it’s the work I decided to create for my mid-term exhibition/review. It took what seemed forever to paint (which was only 2 very long days) and I was very relieved when it was completed. I had no idea how much chairs were a part of my life and how I take them for granted. Aren’t they just amazing? Standing on my feet for most of the day was not fun, but hey, now I love chairs. They are one of the greatest things to have been created ever! Anyway, moving on, I did enjoy painting it, it was just time consuming and thanks to the previous piece, I more or less knew what I was doing. I like the look of the ‘stars’, inspired by Van Gogh of course, they give the work the feel of having a sky. I used the silhouette of the totem pole on its side like before so it appears to be a city. For the review this was my only piece of work on show, compared to everyone else, mine looked sad and lonely. Guess I was going for the minimal look? Admittedly my studio space isn’t as big as other peoples, but ah well. Everyones spaces looked great and it was nice having loads of people around (usually there’s hardly anyone) and helping each other out to get sorted. Well done to them all! I think mine did not turn out as well as I had hoped, after it was completed I felt that the colours were still too bright, even though I had toned them down already with white paint. Yes, I had a few things to complain about, however,  I have realised it is all something to learn from.

Below are photos of stages to get to the final piece:

My Love.

Acrylic paint on acrylic paper, A4.

Just another practise piece I did whilst I tried to figure out what to create for our mid-term exhibition and review. The main inspiration for this painting is easy to see, it was from the great man himself, Van Gogh. The way I have painted this is minimal; the blending of the colours has meant that there is little excess paint. I have realised from this task that I miss high school. Well, more the fact that I was able to use as much paint as I wished and paint as large as I liked for nothing. Ah, the good ol’ days. Now everything costs money Since school, through college and into uni, my work has shrunk and why? Because I simply can’t afford to work big like I want to. Unless I find things to work on in the skip or are donated to me haha! Sorry, I’m going off on one, let me get back to the point I wanted to say in this post. What I do like is thick paint. Something that makes you want to poke it and feel the work. It’s one of the best things in life, I think, especially when you are allowed to touch it. I would like to use thicker amounts of paint again one day, maybe I will at some point, but like everything else, we’ll just have to wait and see.