butchering schiele

this morning, creepy crawlies

A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I visited the Egon Schiele Radical Nude exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery. One of the ways you can tell I really love a collection is if it makes me want to go home and draw or paint. And this one did. Of course I wouldn’t even dream about my work coming close to Schiele’s, but it is my work, inspired by him. And perhaps one day I will inspire others to want to go home and draw or paint. So here is my delayed reaction to Schiele’s wonderful works from that day.

last night i was really tired after a day of painting, so i just played

i’ve always enjoyed the quality of oil pastels. here i used parcel paper i bought from ace

i’ll never paint like schiele but i do hope to achieve his deftness and fluidity

c-section. she needed to be ripped in two

this morning i prepared myself for an ‘official’ painting/drawing

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and this is what i got. i’m very happy with her but she needs to come off the kitchen wall and get framed. but she’s huge

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and of course the period at the end of this sentence