but still painting every weekend. A few bits and pieces on the go. Mona's heading for the Senior Territorian Portrait award in September; after messing with composition for a bit (she started out much more tightly framed and on a square canvas) I'm now really enjoying getting into her wrinkles and of course the eyes. Possibly Betty-a Level of Interest, might be up for the Advocate in July (she's my biggest camel head so far, 120 x 90), painted over a failed landscape. The others are really about playing with figures and environments (Recess II is a repaint of a sketch painting that I was never really happy with, either in terms of proportions or feeling, At the River II is the same girl as in a piece I sold in the Araluen exhibiton, from pics taken when the family were over and we saw the Todd flow in 2008); all fairly preliminary ideas at this stage, but something I'm thinking about a fair bit.
And of course, the final final version of Frames III for the Alice Prize in a couple of weeks (thanks to Bean's patience with photographing this one, and the benefits of polarizing filters, light on shiny textured darks is a bit of a mare:
Finished one, moved one along a bit, and started a whole bunch of new ones.
Finished one, moved one along a bit, and started a whole bunch of new ones.
