30 April still resolving paintings ....and thinking about coaching...

 Watched an artist use wire wool to distress a painting and REALLY liked it so had a go at a few.. I love playing with different ways to soften and remove and this worked really nicely. I softened the face and hat and then built back into it a bit. Really happy with the face now.. Trying to leave the back ground but still want to tidy the circle. 

 

Reworked the hand (still not done ) and extended the daisy wheel to be more of an apotropaic mark than a daisy flower.  She's also got messy hair that reminds me of my daughters untamed hair when they were small.

Hand in progress.

Distressed some fo the areas on the painting of Jasmin with wire wool.

 

Changed the shape of her forehead and cheek and added some colour to the hair where her ear would be.

Think I'm getting there...

 

Took the masking off this and carried on.. I was going to paint tidy black sides on the canvas but decided to use a near black mix free hand and then rub the edges to give a blurred look that I prefer.

My face is definitely a work in progress and I've lost some of the features I wanted but I'm not sure how much of a 'face' I want to have - I feel like it should be pushed into the background a little - but also clearly be there and fit into the painting

 

I'm really liking

• the red brush marks coming over the black line 
• the differences in the dress where it hits the t-shirt and shows the brush marks that stopped at the masking 
• the differences between the scratched and repainted areas
• the red that has been carried across the line (Jenna Gribbon has some really subtle pops of colour in between spaces and details that are lovely)

   

Also really like these tiles. 

Been following an AA2A artist - Dean Melbourne -  for a while who's an art coach and thinking of getting in touch to pin down some objectives over the summer.