'Project - the final frontier' Sketchbook video, Artist Book scrolls and final painting FINISHED!!

I have been looking for a way to congruently present my sketches/works on loose canvas.

After much deliberation I have made (asked my mum nicely to make) crocheted scroll holders so the canvasses can be rolled and held by these. Admittedly she had to make them in the car (or we weren't going to take her to the pictures)

 They looked like this, I contemplated tying them all together but figured they would be easier to get out to look at this way. These are the wools in the other photos that I have used as source for the paintings.

 My final painting 

I have to conclude that the simpler these paintings the better I like them, the more dynamically realistic they appear (to me). I have begun to really appreciate the limited colour pallet and how much can be portrayed with only three (or so) colours. 

My sketchbook video, with my mums hands turning the pages.

Here's the link

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111785338513567442167/posts

This project has been success for me, I have gained a lot of learning from this body of work, I feel as if I have kept on and on at it, pushed my observation skills and found significant competency with my subject. My work has been through quite a process over the last few months and I feel it has evolved beyond what I could have expected. I have always believed I could make work in the past but never pushed myself to focus on it and move towards work that is resolved in some way.

I feel there are many ways in which I could expand this body of work and evolve it further but for the resolution of this project I am pleased I have kept it quite small and manageable as I am aware that I often try to move a project along too fast without fully exploring the nature of the subject.

At the beginning I wrote a project proposal, a part of it said

"I aim to represent their skill or the essence of their mastery through abstract and/or lyrical visual language. To capture colour and movement, intent and enthusiasm in the moment, both theirs and mine together.

I will inform this project by using a phenomenological approach to self-expression and learning 

to use the optimum materials in response to stimuli, to create spontaneous/immediate unique 

work."

I believe that I have fulfilled the greater part of this proposal and I'm really pleased with the results, not only in my work but in a change in attitude to my work and work practice!