Work today on a painting called 'The Empty House'. Here's the idea sketch:
First step is to decide on a size, then draw up the full sized version. I thought that a model for lighting might help, so spent a few hours making a model from cardboard, then skinned with air-dried clay. This 'terracotta' clay (it's more like traffic police orange to me) was a gift, I'd normally use white, and normally DAS. This one was too liquid and sticky, and stainy. Awful to use, but I thought this would be a good job for it, to use it up!
Did lots of image collection too, references of textures and objects, all visual materials to set a mood; classical paintings, lightings and textures. Each of these source pieces will seep into the work as I paint it.
