Equinox

29th September 2018

I have a few projects in hand at the moment:

• Planning of paintings
• Working over canvases painted by someone else (with their permission)
• Equinox project 

Planning paintings involves working out why I want to paint a thing, doing a quick blind contour drawing and then planning the painting as though it were an abstract, before starting work on the actual piece.

I've been given a lot of large canvases by another artist, who is encouraging me to work over them.  I'm not at all sure about this as his practice is completely different from mine, but I'll give it a try.  

              

The Equinox project is a local art exhibit, representing the changing seasons.  There will be a number of posts of varying lengths, positioned in a meadow next to the Thames.  The posts will have hand-made and decorated terracotta pipes piled on them, topped with some kind of 'finial'.  I've been asked to make one or more of the finials.

I decided to go for Spring and Autumn.

      

          

Photo credit: Lucy Rowntree