Seenk Making.

The making of my 'final piece'.

I would like to point out that before coming to this stage, I had planned to make canvases and have that as another new thing I have achieved in doing this warm up project. However, after being sneaky and taking wood up to the studios to recycle it. Measuring how many frames I could make. Taking it back downstairs to the workshop. Waiting and asking for it to be chamfered. Leaving it to be done because we had a lecture. Then returning to find it had not been done because the cutting blade needed to be replaced. It wasn't going to be ready in time for me to complete my work for our little exhibition, so I had to change my plan or do something else... It was a draining time, I felt like the day had been wasted.

After the weekend and having had a chance to think about what to do, I armed myself with a metre of canvas and a plan. I measured out squares and primed them with a couple of layers of gesso mix. Once that had dried, I filled them with oil painted knees. They were a combination of left and right, back and front, upside down and right way up knees. That is where the title came from, "Seenk up, seenk down, seenk all around". Unbeknownst until now, it made me happy to be working in my studio space, with it actually looking like an artists work space.

Cross Your Fingers.

'Cross your fingers.'

It's finally over, yes! I was very unsure about this one from the very beginning. The outline did not look great at all. Normally, I get a feeling about how it's going to go at this point and I just didn't feel it was working. With this drawing I seem to have lost the way I draw, or maybe I just keep changing it. I don't think I have found my style yet and maybe I never will. At some point my mind decided it was a great idea to go mad with the cross hatching. Some might like it and some, like me, may feel it's too much - let me know what you think.

The title for this was decided at the outline break time point, I always have a little rest here, to get myself together and think what I'm going to do. I also found that because of how I felt about the piece, the t.v. seemed more distracting than normal, however, I still managed to get it done. I definitely needed all the luck I could get and crossed my fingers, with the hope that it would get better. I asked people to cross there fingers too, the more the merrier! So if you were one of them, I thank you for trying. Sorry I didn't succeed as well as I could have. But remember practise, practise, practise. One day it'll happen, I will be content with what I create (fingers crossed haha).