Things on my mind

So my mentor has me really thinking about how to express the idea of women in my work without essentializing. So with my medals I have decided to add names in place of where stars, v's, e's, and s's would normally be. The added metal symbols are for repeat awards and award above and beyond.

A close up to show the texture in the fabric

I also started on my watercolor "postcard" series. I'm not sure if this is the direction I want to go with these as the pink is borderline forced opinion of feminine.

Lastly, I've been dealing with a medical legal hearing and it has really been weighing on me. It is bringing up a lot of old bad memories, and I just needed to paint something for myself. I set-up a photo shoot so I could get some images of myself, and I laid in my under painting this evening. This may be a series I want to pursue alongside everything else, but I don't want to bite off more than I can chew. I have a lot of different directions happening right now. I guess that is ok since next semester will be used to lock it down solid.

This painting is 3'x4'. It looks a little scary right now, but my under painting are generally unrefined and somewhat sloppy. I really just use it to get a nice tone underneath the final painting.