Over the past few months I have posted on this subject a number of times a and I don’t know if a I have still got any answers as to whether I have made progress because I am not sure I know where I am going with my art at the moment. However, setting this existential problem aside, I have been reexamining some of the paintings that I have made at the art class and I have been pleasantly surprised with what I found.
None of them are masterpieces but I suspect I have now finally worked out why that might be. First, this collection of paintings are literally the first I have ever made starting in the top left hand corner; second, and this is probably the most important, I have finally put the works into their rightful context, that is they are, at best, painted sketches. up until quite recently I have thought that I should be producing completed works in the time provided – for me an impossibility.
So given these qualifications I am quite pleased with me work. Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to the class this autumn so I have decided to go out with a bit of a bang, I have bought a canvas which is 40inches by 32 inches which will be the largest painting I have ever made. I suspect I will need to take a deep breath and jump. I just hope I am not a blubbering wreck by the end of the class tomorrow.
Simon Marchini
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