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| My guest art journal entry: WIP inspired by the book, 'Great Expectations' |
Day 7 of the '29 Faces' May Challenge. 22 more Faces to go....
Seriously, Day 7 -- we've been at this a week already...??
For today's Face, continuing on with my Student Art Journal Project, whereby I am painting guest entries into the art journals of my private students, as inspired by books we have read and discussed in class, I revisited the journal entry I posted back on Day 5. Using the classic novel by Charles Dickens, 'Great Expectations', as inspiration, I had first began a portrait of a female -- while flip-flopping as to whether I was actually painting the haughty and proud 'Estella', or the neurotically demented, man-scorning 'Miss Haversham'. Well, truth be told, I still haven't definitively settled that score yet (though I think at this point I'm leaning toward Miss Haversham...?) . However, I was and am 100 percent certain about portraying the poor, haplessly mistreated 'Pip' on the opposite side of the two page art journal spread, and so I was able to paint full steam ahead tonight as far as he was concerned. Still plenty more I want to add to complete this journal entry, like some wording perhaps (as well as put the final touches on Estella/Miss Haversham, etc) -- so for now it continues to remain a Work in Progress. But I shall be needing to get ALL of my students' journals finished and returned by next week, so I will really need to focus my time and attention here in the coming days....
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| What my journal entry looked like earlier this evening before adding 'Pip'.... |
7 comments:
Amazing! I was wondering why 'Great Expectations' rang a bell, it was in 'Lost In a Good Book'. Wonderful journal entry (and faces too)!
Both portraits are fantastic! I love your style. :)
Thanks so much, MangaMem -- and indeed yes, 'Great Expectations' is a lovely old Dickens classic, with several good movies having been made of it - perhaps you've seen those as well!? (there was one with Gweneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke I believe -- really good :-)...). In any case, thanks so much for reading and commenting -- very much appreciate it and please stop by again soon!
Thanks so much, Natasha -- it's so encouraging to get positive feedback, so I really appreciate the kind words....! :-D
Really nice … and I love seeing glimpses of the process!
Thank you, Rosemari! And heh, I guess that's the good thing about this Challenge. It's forcing me to post what I have daily, regardless of it's state of (in)completion -- which I probably wouldn't likely be doing otherwise...!
Your students must be very happy to have these beautiful paintings in their journals.
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