Jane Glynn
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Wednesday 24th September 2014
Enjoying painting in the garden - glad I am forcing myself to make a painting outside every day this month for my diary. Often end up making several tiny paintings, working on them all at the same time until they gradually feel finished. Hours pass very quickly like this. I've been choosing one a day for the diary (see last post if you'd like to have a look at it as it grows). Here's one of the extra drawings from today:
Tuesday 16 September 2014
16th September 2014
This month my visual diary is made of paintings from our garden. As with all the other months of the year I set myself a slightly different task based on a personal response to 'being outside':
For this month I am not allowing myself to work from photographs but go out into the garden every day and paint until I have something that I am reasonably happy with. Once I have made the painting for the day I don't allow myself to change it and, even if I end up hating it, it takes its place in the diary. If I am away from home all day, I go outside and make a painting in the dark when I get home. Sometimes the paintings take hours and sometimes minutes - I often make several and choose the one I like best for the diary.
I just choose something that catches my attention; some of the paintings are quite illustrative, some are more painterly and less obviously 'of' something; the whole diary is self-indulgent and playful - by the time I get near the end of a month I am beginning to think about what I'd like to do for the next month.
Each month I print tiny versions of the pictures and make them into books that open out so that all the images can be seen at the same time.
Here are the September images so far (will add more as I do them):
For this month I am not allowing myself to work from photographs but go out into the garden every day and paint until I have something that I am reasonably happy with. Once I have made the painting for the day I don't allow myself to change it and, even if I end up hating it, it takes its place in the diary. If I am away from home all day, I go outside and make a painting in the dark when I get home. Sometimes the paintings take hours and sometimes minutes - I often make several and choose the one I like best for the diary.
I just choose something that catches my attention; some of the paintings are quite illustrative, some are more painterly and less obviously 'of' something; the whole diary is self-indulgent and playful - by the time I get near the end of a month I am beginning to think about what I'd like to do for the next month.
Each month I print tiny versions of the pictures and make them into books that open out so that all the images can be seen at the same time.
Here are the September images so far (will add more as I do them):
Thursday 4 September 2014
4th September 2014
Here are a few of the pictures from the August section of my 2014 diary: a picture of our dog Milly for each day of the month. I took a photograph of Milly outside every day and then drew the pictures at my studio and fiddled with them on photoshop. For September I am painting something outside every day - not allowing myself to use a camera. I like setting myself a slightly different task each month. The diaries are a trace of time passing but also a trace of an educational process.
