The Piper painting idea evolved after
taking some pictures of a penny whistle player. During a critiquing session at college it
seemed that my intentions by means of a visual representation was overall
understood, so in that respect was successful.
It would have been useful to have some constructive criticism as well.
The painting also opened up the idea of
doing a series of paintings focusing on people on the outskirts of society in
terms of social acceptance and the considered norm. This is an idea that I could follow up at
some point.
I think if I were to do this painting again
I would work larger. I feel that with
this type of painting to be understood it needs to be painted in a realistic
way and a consequence of working small is that sometimes painting becomes quite
fiddly and difficult for me to see, I did resort to the use of a magnifying
glass at times. The size though was
partly due to constraints in terms of space and time scale. The painting took between two and a half to
three weeks but the original four-week project time scale didn’t feel
comfortable for planning a painting.
I think every painting is a teacher and a
learning curve and during this one I was reminded about the importance of
colour temperature as a prominent consideration. I’m really keen to get more painting practice
and learning so although my next project will involve sculpture, to get some
continuity with my learning, I intend to also have another, slightly larger
painting running alongside my sculpture work.
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