Friday's for Painting

Every Friday I go to Ricks painting workshop to... ... well... ...paint.

This was how the apple thing started. anyways the following is a bad one though with certain interesting elements...

The concept of surveillance with the all seeing eye in the centre, gesture of a hand above and perverseness of a male figure with an arm on female legs. Also the layout as I wanted to suggest a sort of jigsaw badly composed, how we see majority, conclude and condemn without the whole piece.

Next is the self portrait day. We came in with photographs (or rather mug shots) edited by computer which we would then work on. I like these two in particular because I think they work well side by side and the one on the left reminds me of the Mona Lisa...though others suggested The Spectrum of Jesus...I think that's because we went to the Walker gallery the week before.

Obviously I was feeling a little blue in the morning which eventually led to my own 'Spectrum of Me'. Funnily enough this then led onto yesterday's painting as we all did our own 'Spectrum of Simon'.

We picked a colour theme then were basically let loose on doing what we wanted with his image. I chose a candy floss pink because of the idea of dissolving sugar and the event. The X-Factor for example interested me for the first series but like everything else it gets overdone soooooooooooooooo much that it's boring and the sense of castration creeps up on me when people talk about watching the latest.

Red was the first one I did because basically that's all I see when Simon Cowell appears on the news. I GET IT! HE'S A TALENT HUNTER YET HE HASN'T BEEN DOING THAT FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS HE! IT'S FIVE MINUTES OF FAME BEFORE WE FORGET THEM AGAIN! This people is why I was so happy Rage Against the Machine hopped to Christmas number 1.