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| self portrait, ink and acrylic on paper, 84x60cm |
Have been rather poorly over the last two weeks - lots of coughing, no voice for 12 days! ... and no painting. A disaster of a semester so far.
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| self portrait, ink and acrylic on paper, 84x60cm |
So to have something to blog i trawled through my drawings of a few years ago when i first started exploring expressive self portraiture.
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| self portrait, charcoal and acrylic on paper, 84x60cm |
I would look into a mirror positioned beside a large sheet of white paper, look at the paper, look at the mirror, look at the paper, turn on the spot in agitated small circles, back to looking at blank paper, mirror, paper.
Then, still looking into the mirror, make a sudden desperate attack on the paper with gestural marks. These were almost blind contour drawings because my fixation was on the mirror rather than on the paper.
It was all over in a couple of minutes. It was the agitated small circles that took all time!
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| self portrait while drawing, charcoal and pastel on paper, 84x60cm |
Hopefully i'll be back in the studio producing new work soon ... dancing my little circles of angst.
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