Ok, so today didn’t go according to plan.  I intended on spending the whole day working on my next project and I failed.  My young cousin Stacey is up from Port Glasgow with her baby daughter.  She’d been staying at my dad’s for the past few days,  and my dad forgot to tell me!  So I had to go see them both.  I have always adored my little cousin.  I used to babysit her when she was young, and she would come stay with me when she was older and I had my own house.  They go home tomorrow.  It’s just a shame I didn’t know they were here earlier!

Anyway, I was out all day, we all went shopping.  This meant that I didn’t get much work done but I don’t get to see my family often, so I think I can be forgiven.

I started working on the My Space project tonight.  I’ve already said that this project would be about my inner child, and my tutor suggested that I do some self portraits.  She said that I should look at artists like Picasso, Munch, Marc Chagall, Ernst Kirchner and Matisse for inspiration.  So I was looking through Picasso and Portraiture by William Rubin and found some absolutely fantastic paintings and drawings – I’m a huge fan of Picasso’s work.  I did a self portrait based on Picasso’s Sculptured Head.  His drawing was done in charcoal, but I used a graphite stick instead.  I was intrigued by the shapes and the play of light on his drawing, so thought I’d have a bash at something similar.  It was a great exercise in shading, and I’m quite pleased with how it came out.  It’s a fairly strange looking piece, but then isn’t most of Picasso’s work!