Immortality
Hello everybody – as always, I’m sorry that I’m so excessively poor at blogging; I really like doing it but struggle to find time. Anyway, here is the reason I wanted to blog today:_
The very excellent Bill Mundy ( www.billmundy.blogspot.com/ ) has just finished this lovely miniature of me, and I’m awfully proud of it. Not only because it’s beautifully done, and very flattering (check out the slightly enhanced boobies!) but because somehow, a painting feels less transient than a photograph. This is probably partly novelty value for me – I don’t pose for many artists so I see a lot more photographs of myself than I see paintings. But the feeling of timelessness of a painting (especially a nude one) makes me hope it’ll be around long after I’m not.
Actually, I hope my photographs will be too. But this painting makes me feel a little bit immortal. And makes me want to read the Harry Potter books again to get some tips on immortality.
Hope you like it too! I’m off to work with Bill again today, and I’m excited about producing some portraits in the bluebells, although the weather seems to be trying to warn me off….
Joceline x
I know what you mean Joceline – there’s something about a painting. Great to see you as the subject of such art.
As for the weather…supposed to be working with Laurie again in Cornwall this Friday, but it looks like it’ll be indoors
Keep sharing the beauty!
Hi Joceline.
Love the painting .Thanks for the great photo shoot at park cameras last Friday .I really enjoyed it and gained a great deal from it .
I hope to work with you again.
All the very best
Pete.
Hello,
I hope that part of that ‘immortality’ can be captured with photographs as well, and if one ignores the skills and the ‘effort’, a photo should be a ‘credible’ medium for capturing that essence which may transcend the ‘real thing’.
(I’ve seen paintings where girls seemed to me as ‘real’ and as ‘fresh’ as though I lived in their time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDvz_0_2VvA
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