12th March. Painting and application for A-N Degree feature

Did some more on this one.

Started by working with a Pro-create plan to test how the apple and background would work.

I still need to work on the textures in the background and the smooth blurred areas. The legs look a bit strange and I keep thinking that my brains confusing them with how planted I want them to be and how much movement I want there to be. They're better in the looser procreate version where they're not pulled to the front - will wait for it to fry and go again.

 

procreate left -and reworked actual painting right

Looking at insta artist: Massimiliano Montaldi for areas of clear and rough .. need to sketch more and work from there 

Put my application in for the A-N Class of 2023 degree show feature.

SO MANY statements now.. I think this wraps it up:

I could use up to 75 words for A-N so I tried to really describe my medium context and influences to make it easy to wrap your (and my) head around. This is 73 words:

I work in oil to create paintings from photographs.  

My intention is to make something that is relatable, through the way that I apply paint. 

I'm interested in historical influences, domesticity, the maternal and nature versus control.

I use iconography in my paintings, in the form of witches' hats and apples to reference female perspectives, and patterns found in apotropaic marks known as “witch marks” to reference a co-existence of belief systems.