oil on canvas. 100x 40cm
charcoal. 78x 60cm
The resolutions are tempting but keeping to them is another matter entirely. The drawing here is one of exploring those shifts that occur in between looking at the head, drawing and looking back. Unless one is determined to register the head by some means and return to a fixed position then this is what happens. The notation shifts. I have had a go at this before and the result is crude but what happens I think, is that the head starts to inhabit the space in a more solid manner. In the painting it doesn"t show up so much but it is there. One still has to make decisions about what is included, what is omitted but the head is registered through these small movements. There is a lot more to do: the painting should be more akin to the drawing.
In Hedge, the view from my window is less important than the paint on the canvas and there is not a photographic equivalent although I pinned up a black and white photograph of another hedge just to look at whilst I was working. This is not a big painting but I was able to work on it closely so that often I could neither see the hedge or the photograph.
