Upcoming
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006As usual, even though I don’t have the space or materials to work on very many projects (and painting and pasteling are totally out of the question), my brain is working on overtime to churn out ideas. So, on the agenda for the (rather distant) future:
* a pencil still life. This is not so unreasonable for now, except that I don’t know why I want to do it. I hate still lifes. It’s probably just that I feel like I need to do more work from life (which is true).
* a small (9×12) black-and-white self portrait in the same sort of style as my portrait of James. I even have the photo prepared, but alas, I have neither paint nor brushes nor canvas board.
* a painting on James’ guitar case. Not sure why I want to do this, exactly, except that working on such a non-traditional surface sounds fun. The only problem is, I have no idea what to paint on it. Minor detail, right? My first instinct is to paint a guitar as realistically as possible, since the case is already guitar-shaped. That could be sort of cool, although I know I don’t have the talent with a paintbrush necessary to pull of the sort of trompe de loeil realism necessary to make that subject work. Suggestions on subject matter greatly appreciated.
* more altered book pages!
Not really fine art per se, but also:
* a scrapbook of high school. Particularly I want to devote a section to track before I lose all my newspaper clippings.
* a scrapbook of James and me. Sort of a lazier and less artistic version of the altered book I made him.
This sudden desire to scrapbook stems partially from the fact that I have three empty scrapbooks sitting in my basement. I bought them the summer before senior year, when I thought maybe I would make scrapbooks as graduation presents for people. Hah. Anyway, spender’s guilt seems to be catching up with me and I feel like I really ought to at least try to do something with them. Even if they were only $4 apiece.
