22/01/2009 contd.

22/01/2009

All quiet today. Some of my colleagues were joking with me, they reckoned that I have been paying people to write favourable comments in the comment book,(for the video exhibition we have running this week ! )It was very funny. Good to get the comments though.

Took some photographs of the various video work that is on display, some did not come out very well.

20/01/2009

My blog was missing from the google site for a few days for reasons unknown to me , however it has now returned. (After much pinging and writing to them!). Thank you Mr. Google

19/01/2009

Assessments over now t g. We had the opening night of our video exhibition "A sense of place" tonight, it was a great success. There were great works by all my colleagues, such diversity, and all from 'painting' students. I am very interested in using this medium in my studio practice.

10/01/2009

My "airbrushed beauty" is coming on well, quite "Sasnal" like. I used a cool blue for the background colour, and a warmish green/white for the facial colour. The painting is progressing well, although it will not be finished before the assessments. I added a strip of silver tape to one side of the face, and hope to add a photo frame to the right of the tape, with a missing person photograph.

10/01/2008

10/01/2009

I added the photographic images to the watercolour paper which had the jigsaw shape on. They look very effective. I used bleach on the some of the photographs to dissolve the facial features. Again, recognisable as people but not recognisable as individuals. On other photographic images of missing people, I used white gesso painted on top, to cloud the image, again, this was a highly effective procedure. I placed some images into frames with the words; missing friend, father, mother on them, a reference to the missing souls.