I began a new painting in my ArtII class and im obsessivily in love with working on it. The assignment was to do a reproduction on Van Gough's Irisis, and I know some people may say its completely uncreative and wrong to do a copy of Van Gough's work, but its not really about the subject matter more so learning the skills he used in the painting.
As you can see im no where near being done I just got done with the table and vase and im begining the leaves. What really made me fall in love with this project was (besides the fact that its paint) is that all the paint used is mixed with modeling paste.
Now I have never in my life worked with modeling paste in paint or any other form. So I was a bit apprehensive about it but really excited to learn more about this unexplored medium for me. So I used it and fell in love with it I think I may love it more than chalk pastels. The texture and deminsions that it gives your painting is really quite amazing. So the very same day I tried it for the first time I decided Ihad to have some to use at home. Which worked out really nicely because my art teacher was going to buy more after school so she bought me a bottle and I paid her today, and I have to say its my new favorite art supply! Im sure you can tell im pretty excited about it. As for the actual painting its going so but I've really enjoyed working on it. Im posting a more zoomed in shot but you still cant see the texture very much. ( and will someone please explain why all the pictures keep going to the top!? its drivning me crazy) Any way..
So one of the main reasons im so excited about my new modeling paste is because im starting ANOTHER painting this weekend one that I've wanted to do for quite sometime. First I should say Im skipping out on prom due to lack of friendship and more importantly a ticket. So I will have a free weekend now. And im planning on dressing in some type of old fashioned outfit ( which shouldnt be to hard for me, since everything I own is basically) and doing my hair up in a gibson girl do. Me and my mum are going to go to the nature center and take pictures, and from there im going to do a self portait painting from one of them. The reason im so excited about this is I REALLY hate doing any type of self portrait work, but this is different it gives it a new and more exciting start to it for me at least.
Well the good news is that tomorrow is friday! Thank god, this has honestly been a tough week for me with the whole prom thing and my slipping grade in Algebra and Chem. So friday comes as a sigh of relief. Tomorrow after shool im going to the applacian festival at Cony Island with Brooke, my parents, aunt,uncle,and little cousin so thats sure to be fun. It always manages to stir some creativity inside me even though im happy to say im lacking no creativity right now. The rest of the weekend will be me working on my painting. Doing some knitting on my lavender hat which has remained untouched all week. And I'd really like to watch Atonement again something I didnt manage to get around to last weekend, so I'll try and set aside some time for that and some knitting. So all and all hopefully mine and everyone elses weekend will be pleasent!
Bye Dears!
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