Stack

This is what a stack* of one hundred
sheets of Bristol board looks like.

I still have about a day's worth of work to do, tightening the pencils, to give me a bit of a head start for the marathon (i.e. I'll only be painting with inks and not still drawing stuff), but I feel quite prepared right now.

*That one on top is my big weird head, which I'm saving for last, just before I collapse.

One Quarter

"But everything has been so gradual that it's sort of all come from just hard work and basically being at it."

– Kim Gordon.

About a quarter of the portraits here, prepped in pencils on Bristol board. I have enough photo ref now to bring the total up to two thirds and these should be ready by early next week.

It's interesting: my Burning the Midnight Oil project is a 100 hour painting marathon, but the preparations (soliciting participants, collating and keeping track of all kinds of info, creating and sending press releases, documenting the process by writing this blog, getting all the portraits ready, etc.) will probably take just as long if I was keeping track of those hours.

Ship-shape and Bristol Fashion

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."

– Ernest Hemingway

Not quite 100 sheets here, but enough to get me started as I begin prepping the 100 portraits this month.