A full day of painting work. Started the day filing notes on writings, and a sketch of a poem. Then looked at some painting ideas for the future. One began as a work called 'Ecephalitis Lethargica' but I changed the title to 'She Was Always Asleep At School'. I drew the underdrawing. This painting, unusually for my current way of working, didn't have an idea sketch, merely an idea of a liquid cranium. I added other elements to emotionally fit with the title. Here's the underdrawing:
Another unusual thing is the lack of guidance. I sometimes use circular crosshairs to place elements, but this was all drawn freehand for a change.
Once done. I photographed the drawing (as you can see!) and printed that on card, and prepared it, and the Rachel Hudson painting, for colour studies by mounting them on wood and priming. Here's the Hudson one.
These are very rough guides to colours, and very useful. Painting any picture twice, three times, four times, makes it better. Most of the time, the first colours are the instant best, but not always, and in those circumstances, studies like this, which take perhaps an hour including preparing them, are worth it.
