DEGREES UNEDITED

# 30 [2 May 2007]

did some more work on me and olivia today, olivia's right hand eye is driving me mad, i cant work out which way it should be looking, and its looking the wrong way on the photo, so i cant copy that. rrrrraaaahhhh.....

# 29 [27 April 2007]

here is the finished one of helen

# 28 [27 April 2007]

went in to the art school this morning, did some more work on olivia, useing that veridian/ lemon yellow combination, with some white and naples yellow to soften it. looks good. don't like the one of me today, contemplating leaving it out of the exhibition and having kate, helen, adam and olivia instead. i think thats what will happen. had my exhibition space confirmed today, three boards plus a foot. excellent. dissertation on 3,400 words. made another six small canvasses today, so i can test both the skulls looking forward and the skulls and the same angle as the heads idea.

# 27 [26 April 2007]

lots to say today. i had a tutorial today, and lots of things relating to the exhibition where discussed, including:

 * the possibility of calling ALL the paintings 'still life'

 * selling the paintings in pairs, with the corresponding skull, for £300 per pair, which seems fair, as i'd get £195 after the school had taken its 35% off

 * the skulls could all be facing the same way, as in the second skull painting, to suggest the monotomy and very same death we all experiance

  * the first skull paintng has too much going on visually, the second one is better because of its symetry

 * the skulls could be facing the same way as thier corresponding person

 * i could have all four, or even five portraits in the exhibition (with the skulls, that would make a ten painting show!)

 * the skulls could be bigger (is the  mirror nessesary?)

 * the skin on olivia is the wrong colour. try viridian mixed with lemon yellow, apparently.

# 26 [24 April 2007]

 had contact lenses put in today. have honestly never been in such a state of nervousness over a forecoming physical happening in my entire life. torture! anyway, whether i shall be able to put them in in the morning remains to be seen. the relevence of the above is that not a lot of work has been completed today. i knocked off a skull painting in the morning with disgustingly little effort (it took about an hour) so that dosn't really count. spent the afternoon poking a tansparent material onto the surface of my eye, for my forthcoming benifit and conveniance, and this evening i have been doing a bit of dissertationing. painting tommorow, will try to put another layer on both paintngs, and to do another skull or two in the evening before my tutorial on thursday morning (we do have them after all). in case you are wondering, the sudden use of long, vacuos and irrelevent words in this blog is a direct result of me writing my dissertation prior to this. haha...

# 25 [23 April 2007]

just noticed two things: the painting at the bottom of this blog 'then i went travelling' is the one taken before i put the eyelashes on the left eye. so its not the finished piece. libel and slander!

 olivia looks as if she has applied a leyer of fake tan to her face, and has gone a strange teabag induced colour as a result. must recify!

# 24 [23 April 2007]

 hello!

hhmmm.. ok, i did some dissertation work over the weekend, up to 2290 words, just the same amount again.

was up working on the first skull painting last night, it looks good. it was quite easy, actually, only took a couple of hours (it's acrylic). it occured to me that the skulls are the only paintings which have any chance of actually selling at the degree show, because i can't imagine anyone wanting a portrait of someone they don't know on their wall, unless its a dealer or something, but even so, they aren't very saleable. maybe i'll get some commissions from people who want to be flattered. great.

we where given a pricing guide by the school of art. all work is to be priced according to size, which seems completely obsurd to me. on that scale my skulls are up to £110, which is great, but my portraits are up to £160, which is not so great, considering the art school takes 35%.  so thats means, even if i priced them above what the art school recomends, at say, £200, i still only get £130. i know i'm unknown, etc, etc, but i do have dignity and a sence of what my work is worth.

 went into the art school today, put another layer on both the portraits, and finished helen's, i think. (!) i changed the colour on mine, as i was looking a lot greener than the average person, if you know what i mean.

ok, i think thats it for today, i'm going to miss doing this blog when its all over. its a chance to have a bit of a rant and get it al of my chest, all those ideas which otherwise float about in a disconnected fashion.

# 23 [19 April 2007]

 made the canvases, and primed them. just at the library, doing research for dissertation.

actually, i'm doing no such thing. i'm writing this and generally procrastinating until the inevitable moment when i actually have to do the essay. dum de dum... wonder whats on the telly tonight... the apprentice was good yesterday.

 oh  for goodness sake emily go and do some work....

# 22 [18 April 2007]

 just noticed: olivias's right hand side eye is loking the wrong way a bit. hehe!

# 21 [18 April 2007]

i thought i'd finished hwlwn today, i'd even signed it, but now i'm not entirely sure. think her forehead could do with some very faint lines or something, it looks a bit plastic at the moment. just found that i don't have another tutorial until after my degree show, which is seriously unhelpful!

tommorow i'm picking up the canvas's for the skull paintings, or the base for them anyway, i've got to put the beading on, strech and prime them myself. all the hard work, and nobody notices! they would notice if it was put together poorly though.

worked on both paintings today, it seems to be a pattern that one goes smoother than the other, at the moment the one of olivia is going very smoothly, mine is going to be a bit more uphill, i think. anyway, they are both wet at the moment so i need to give them a couple of days to dry, so i can get on with the skulls and my dissertation. the dissertation is mindnumbingly boring. i hate analising myself.