April...

A new month and another new piece started, Bryn doesn't look to impressed so far but this is just the first layer of the background, eventually its going to be another portrait of Katie, but as you can see, much larger this time. Have also been working on snow white, the areas painted Orange will be gilded with gold. Most of the drawing is now done on this, still need to do the man in the moon though. I took the green painting of Katie up to the RA yesterday, so we'll see what happens this year ;-)

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some foreground

Rough shading on the dress and some foreground elements today...

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a little form

Started working up some shading on Snow White today. I need to get this and the dress roughed in before I start drawing more of the foreground elements.

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adding some detail

I've been adding some extra details today, lots of stars and leaves roughed in, as well as some more swirling lines. So far, so good :-) lots more to add though...

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todays work

I've built a clay shim and applied the first area of plaster. I've used a rather old packet of plaster so I'm hoping it'll be okay and set, if not I'll need to do it again next week...have also been working on Snow White, I've finished blocking in the main shapes, so the next task will be starting on the patterned sections. I've been working in a slightly different way on this picture, using charcoal to draw the lines I want and then sealing the correct marks with the acrylic, washing off the rest of the charcoal and then drawing the next layer. It's a very effective way of building up the design, Definately something I'll continue doing.

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blocking in...

I've started working on the main shapes today, building up the curves and thinking about exactly how I'm going to try and pull things together...

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drawing snow white

I've gridded up the board, transferred over the drawing of katie, sealed that with paint and then worked up the main lines of the rest of the painting in charcoal. Need to live with this for a little bit now, but it feels promising at the moment.

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stage 3

I've covered the wet clay with silicone, building it up in layers and finally adding some ridges to key it Into the next stage which will be the plaster 'mother' mold... it took several hours to carefully work this all in, so hopefully it'll work ;) also started drawing out the 'snow white' picture today, more on that tomorrow :)

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stage 1

I've built a giant matchstick ! I'm going to build a simple clay model over the top of this, no idea what of yet, all a bit of an experiment, just want to go through the process and see what problems arrise. Large board in background has had base colour applied ready for next painting which will probably be titled "snow white"...

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