tim’s thought property

As the semester is coming to an end, my projects are slowly coming to arrive at their submission dates.
It’s a bit daunting at first, to have to complete some major projects worth a large portion of the semester’s mark. But as I slowly proceed at this, it becomes more of a habit, then a worry. Having painting for homework is demanding, if not a little difficult. Just as with reading or paper writing, distraction comes by easily for me, when I paint. I have tried to paint in company, but find that solitude works the best for me.
As I’m waiting for the paint to dry (literally) right now, I have to step back to see how the work is shaping up.
In a two part series (diptych) I have to create a face-less self portrait, in the manner or style of another artist. Having a terrible time trying to work out the concept, I have come to a foothold on half of it. In the manner of Sisley, Manet and the influence of Hopper, I am painting an Impressionist Still-life. The subject are things that have had some influential significance to me in the last five years, and in a manner that is foreign to my familiarity, I am painting it all.
So, if these pictures look a little blurry, they probably are. But the painting itself has the same hazy, dabbed feeling to that of a Sisely landscape, or a Manet portrait. At least that is my intention. This has been consuming much of my time to get to work the way I want it to. With many CD’s played and a few LP’s, my time has been accompanied by loud music from the stereo.
As the paint has probably dried enough for me to continue, I should return to the work at hand. Fantasia playing on the television, the house empty, I am able to create.