October 16th – 24th I sketched out a potential composition of an orange circle painting in acrylic based on my photoshop mock-up. It was very poor, and very difficult to know how to represent the figures convincingly. Tonally it was very flat. I decided to focus...
October 12th – 15th To get into the flow and to help me start to feel the piece a bit more I sketched from life drawing videos of a pregnant model. I overlapped quick sketches. I like the idea of a row of overlapping poses, like a queue, pregnancy is waiting. I...
October 7th – 11th As my main concern about narrative painting is that I feel my compositional skills are weak, I explored compositional devices in paintings in another tutorial with artist Carl Randall. I found out that good things to try could be...
Oct 4th – 6th The phrase ‘helping hands’ jumped out at me from my initial ideas brainstorming so I decided to draw hands beckoning and raising up, as if to the pregnant mother. Could hand paintings sit alongside the paintings of pregnant women as if a chorus...
