Thursday, April 28, 2005
Procrastination
I have a logo to do for someone but I somehow managed to procrastinate yet another evening. Don't worry - it won't happen again. I'll be working on it tonight.
I have some ideas for a few paintings, one being a housewarming gift for a friend. So after work, I ran out and picked up a few canvasses. I also stopped in at Blockbuster and found some old favourites either previously viewed or at a really good sale price. I picked up Sleepy Hollow, The Hours, Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow and Bedazzled.
I got home and the procrastination continued. After a quick bite to eat (more soup - I still have half a vat left,) I decided it was a good time to revisit an old painting that I'd started years ago and never got around to finishing. When I went to NSCAD, we used to re-use canvasses over and over. At one point during a summer break, I decided to take an old self portrait that I never liked and paint over it. I found a painting that I really liked that would match my bedroom and got to work. I decided to paint only a portion of Fernand Khnopff's (1858-01921) I close my door upon myself:
(This is the portion of the original work that I'd chosen)
I never finished the painting on the first go due to time constraints. A couple of years later I went back to it and painted the sculpted head. Then a couple of years after that I went back and decided to paint some of the foreground with a slightly different style than the original. All the while, the portion with the flowers in the very foreground had always just been blocked in. Well, last night I finally finished the flowers. I'm also thinking that I've never been satisfied with the female figure, and since I've already started to stray from an actual reproduction I may change the female figure altogether. But that will be for another day....
Posted by Dre at 7:43 AM
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