12 October. Ethics, going online, "canvas corners" and studio time.

 

Studio Practice today: I spend a lot of time trying to get the corners on my canvasses how I want them - I forget how I cut the edges once folded so I've taken photos and approached this one with the same cut on all corners.  I think this works for me. I purchased a canvas stretcher (clamp) last year and am using this to make my canvasses so that they're taught.  I have decided that I don't like white gesso - only because I like to see the actual fabric of the canvas so I'm investing in more transparent (note - still need to try rabbit skin glue).

• Ethics lecture with Michael Day - This made me really consider that I need to form a plan for my project.  I've been content to start the year by testing oil and print mediums but I need a framework and to establish my project scope.
• The female roles that I've been researching all lead me back to motherhood (being a mother or not) and the female experience.  I'm going to focus on how these historical "roles" impact the current female experience.

• I've collated a set of questions to ask people so will organise some time to discuss the ethics form and determine how to start and organise myself.

• Project name: Your mum. I intend to produce a body of work from photographs that people feel represent them as a mother.

  The aim is to open a discourse around expectation, social influence, experience, and the future.

  
  

  
  

• I'm making the final touches to my website and adding the domain and favicon 

Progress on the oil ideas:

 

I got impatient and wanted to see the contrasts in treatments/painting. I'd forgotten that I'd masked off some bare canvas sections which I prefer.  I don't know why but I like the exposed bare fabric.

 

Passed Alistair Woods work on the way out of the Gallery and took another look - I really like the tonal effects and textures in his work.  In comparison my work looks crude and cartoon like. 

 

Snapped in the studio for an Fine Art Insta post by Anna F.