for Blogtober Day 6
Sundays have always been a rather odd day for me, as being an artist for “work” means it’s difficult to figure out how to have time off. I find collage is a great way to unwind, creatively speaking, as it uses lots of visual skills while looking for the perfect image, and I also love how the collage adapts and evolves as the additions are glued on. It’s also easy to fiddle around with while watching something in the background as it is happy to stop and start, unlike many other artistic practices.
Today I watched the new Top Gun movie (I remember the first one coming out in the cinema…) while working on a page from Condé Nast Traveller magazine, my chosen resource for college. It was a fashion shoot page, set in perhaps the Highlands? Ireland? Somewhere green and hilly and windswept anyway, and there was a model wearing a white oversized sweater in one corner, and a white-painted church in the other. I started off with adding another person dressed in white, and gazing wistfully in to the beyond, and then some white butterflies, and then some white trainers. Then a pale hand with a massive diamond on one of the fingers from a Boodles ad, and I had a sort of vision of something to do with a “Searching for happiness” kind of theme. Then I found some white horses and it went a bit weird but by this time I was watching “Death Comes to Pemberley” (a BBC adaptation of the PD James novel which was very good, and a bit dark and spooky) and I was just thoroughly enjoying myself so the theme took a bit of a back seat.
I rather like the horse eating the greenery out of the mint julep, proffered by the yogi. I want to paint some white strings from the horselady’s outstretched hands so she is holding the butterflies like balloons, and also to add some sort of back to the horse in the front left corner, so there is definitely more to do with this.
