It has been a week of calamari here in my studio. All other projects have been suspended by my current obsession with this giant squid painting.
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Met an artist, listened to an illustrator, ate dinner with an arty friend, received an arty book and painted a giant squid. Yeah, a very arty week.
To celebrate the fact that my studio has just had a darn good tidy up (except my art desk, that is still pending), here are a few piccies to prove that it was once tidy before I trash it again 😀
I am having a love affair with iridescent gel. I can’t seem to get away from it, not that I want to. I can’t help but throw some into almost all my paintings at the moment. I just love the lustre.
In this series I am focussing on finding inspiration through exploration of media and the world around us. Most of the time inspiration doesn’t hit us out of the blue, we have to go looking for it.
I thought it appropriate that I stumbled across this challenge today. I have encountered it before, but completely forgot about it until that chance encounter today. It must be fate.
So here be my statement of intention – despite the fact that I find stating my intentions to be kinda scary since if I don’t follow through with said intentions, we all get to see me fail said intentions. So with that in mind…