Back to the project

I was hoping to work on my project all weekend long, however life had other plans for me. Still, it turned out to be an interesting weekend, it was a good thing it was a long weekend.

As I mentioned previously I decided to make the project about a series of painting about Iris's so I went and bought myself some deep blue Iris at the market, I got them before they bloomed.

The following day they had started to open up, and I was hoping I would be able to sketch and maybe do some watercolour, but or maybe because it was a beautiful sunny day, sketching did not happen. We had visitors instead and that worked ended out to be a good thing for me because I got to talk about how I was stressed about the project and how I had switched subjects half way through it.

My friends really liked the concept of the shoes in a woman's life, but I got so uptight about it thinking that I did not have enough time to do it right, that I froze and beside doing a couple of sketches (that I did not like) I could not get really started.

However, even though I changed the subject matter to flowers thinking it was going to be easy, the same thing happened. I wanted perfection and froze again. Fortunately, my friends managed to share their experiences and parted with a bit of wisdom. Therefore, I decided to just do it, jump into the project and see what happens. I believe that having a relaxing day with friends was better than stressing out all day about the project. I guess I needed to relax and stop thinking about it so I could get back to it with a better attitude.

Then, Easter came and that was a family day, so no time for drawing or painting either, another break. Meantime, I decided not to stress anymore and today, I spent the day in my studio preparing my wooden panels for the tempera and I started the two canvas of field of Iris.

Now, the problem with glazing is that it needs to dry before applying more glazes, so today I worked all day and advanced the underpainting as much as I could. Fortunately, I had started one of the canvas last week, but I had to make some adjustments, it was to tight, to static. See the pictures of both canvas one on top of the other. I decided to approach the project in a more relaxed matter and maybe be a bit looser with my brushes.


Tomorrow, I will start the under paintings of the small wooden panels. I will have to take a day off this week to finish the project for Friday morning and I have to bake a banana bread for our Final Crit morning.

I will do the shoe project on my own without the deadline pressure.