Monday, August 31, 2009

peter lawrence



this painting was created at my school's 'big night out' (a kind of expo thing where people come and watch music and drama, visit classrooms, eat food etc etc) in 2007. we set the art room up as a studio with a bunch of students at easels around peter lawrence, one of the school's longest serving staff members (and my english teacher when i was a high school student). we had a bit over an hour to create a work. i had a blank yellowish canvas with lots of textured stuff on it, which i worked the face onto, then varnished at the end. only having that short amount of time means it's very impressionistic, just blocks of tone, really, but it has a nice looseness and directness. the varnish also stripped some of the paint off the textured areas which was quite nice.

the artwork now resides with peter lawrence.

35x52cm. acrylic, pencil, collage and varnish on canvas.
september 2007

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