I always pick myself up. And I enjoyed similar mark-making techniques to create semi-abstract landscapes. I enjoyed the colour mixes here and in the previous abstract versions. I'm exploring colour mixes that are not my usual palette. It's good fun and I'm discovering lots of interesting combinations! The faint lines are Neocolor 2 (a dark purple), which I also used to create a ground in bright green
We're continuing with our theme of old cinemas in Dublin. This one in Fairview is now a supermarket. I don't know what's upstairs.
It was much easier to get to Fairview than I would have thought. Luas to Stephen's Green, then the number 14 bus from Aungiers Street. I could actually have taken the 14 from Dundrum, but there's probably not that many of them.
It was a cold sunny day. I drew it all on location - actually, I didn't do all the windows on location. They were all the same. So once I had done the two on the left, I knew I could just rinse and repeat. And added colour pencil in a café. Then had curry chips in the local chipper, as the café of choice didn't have enough room for us all.
Week 10 of Find Your Joy and I wasn't feeling the joy. I do like the top two pieces, though. So it just goes to show that my true self keeps shining through, even when I'm frustrated with the pace of the course. Maybe I was exhausted? Normally I would do all 6 pieces in one session, but I only managed 4 over 2 days. It was not that the concepts are difficult to grasp. It's just that I didn't feel the energy anymore! I'm looking at what I painted on week 1, and I'm not feeling like I have progressed. If anything, I think I'm going backwards. I was told that I would be excited in what we do for the last 2 weeks. Really? 10 weeks of very similar stuff, and then all is going to be amazing in the last 2 weeks? I feel the pacing of this course isn't for me. A bit late now. The free taster was a week and it was packed with content. But the full course had basically one concept per week. Maybe I wasn't feeling challenged enough? Will need to think about it when it's all done.
Sketching a self-portrait while I'm at the hairdresser's waiting for my colour to set is a good reminder why I like to wear a fringe rather than sweeping the hair back! And also a reminder that I'm not getting any younger. And maybe some day I will get around to getting that left ear pinned back.
