Uncle Sam answers your questions, and more!

Hello, and thankyou for all the comments. In answer to the comments the canvas is fairly big as you can see from todays picture (about 1x1.25Metres). Ideally I would've loved to do a bigger one, but I'll see how this turns out first! In answer to posting comments with an identity, it shouldn't be too hard - unless your a member of blogger, click other and type your name!

Transporting the canvas has been challenging at times

As you should be able to tell from this picture there's been a little bit of progress since the first post. Some of the lines have got longer, while in the center of the canvas a second layer is also beginning. I think ideally I'd love to work on a canvas about 6 times the size of this, in a sort of 'widescreen' format. I haven't really done any painting at all for some years (since A level now) and it's often said that painting is a format which is going nowhere. I used to think the same, that everything has already been done in painting so why would I want to paint, but on placing the first mark on the canvas I changed my mind!

Right now to me, it's an ugly mess but that's how it should be at this stage I would've thought. I'm just going from the image in my head. I've been working at it for about 3 weeks now, everyday a few more splodges, but this weekend I'll be taking a 3 day break as I won't be here to do it. It feels wrong that I should stop for even a few days, I keep thinking it may be best to take it with me where I go and work on it wherever I am, but for all the hassle, I can't really be arsed.

First post!

This is the first post of my new blog, a photoblog of sorts, showing how my painting comes along. It's gonna be a slow process - it's a rather large canvas and I like the idea of it taking shape slowly... This first picture that I'm showing you is what it looked like earlier today. I've had the canvas for over a year and started it about 3 weeks ago. I'd been unsure what to do until I had a sudden brainwave and placed a dot on the canvas. I'll explain more about the style, reasonings and so on throughout the rest of the blog, just so you all don't get bored, and may mix it with other things, for example art critique! Anyway, I may post about once or twice a week on this so keep coming back to see how it progresses! If you have any suggestions, advice or just want to tell me it looks crap, feel free to leave a comment!

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