Jan 17th, Elevator pitch session. Setting goals

•  Reviewed my Linked in profile and increased my network a little after the session with Career Connect; 
• I've added the elevator pitch that I edited in this mornings session and turned on creative mode to enable me to add my website to my profile.
• I need to change the profile picture on here and on my website... I need to source that photograph first and I hate pictures of myself.
• Popped a post of an artwork on there to be "active" 
•  I feel that it's difficult to find active artists on Linked in,  but notice that Polly Bates (Fine art Staffs alumni) is a consistent and recent user; she's just shared her success, getting Artists responding to... stocked in Tate.
• Took a look at the website and magazine

                                                 

Met with Stoke creates and ArtUK - I'm now a registered volunteer with Stoke Creates and I'm all set up to tag.

Also had a really interesting conversation with Katey from ArtUK about the Staffordshire University Art Collection. I co created the inventory and co curated the exhibitions, which she saw when she came to Staffs uni, so discussed what other works may be able to be added to the Art UK site.  Katey also showed me some works by Geoffrey Appleton, listed on the ArtUK site as being part of the Staffs uni collection, which I hadn't seen when creating the inventory and exhibitions. 

Looked at my essay plan.

Taking this one in very slow stages of layers..... not sure what I want todo with this one at the moment and wish I'd masked the face out entirely. Will have to make another one.

Happy with the hat and hair /background on this one but adding layers to the face which are a slow burner and I'm not happy with the hair - the fringe looks looser and better messier on previous photographs.

considering adding a scramble effect to the face and masking sections.

                                               

Added some paint to this face but keeping these layers really sparse so far - looking at different tonal values and trying to build shadowy hazy shapes