I have finally managed to finish the painting that I am going to enter for the Derbyshire Open art event in Buxton . Entitled " Landscape series 01/02 : Mary's Grandfather Demonstrates How to Build a Dry-Stone Wall " , it's based on photographs of Mary's paternal grandfather building dry stone walls in and around Chelmorton , just outside Buxton. Technically its not brilliant and in retrospect there are other ways I would have chosen to do various things ; artistically it's fine and hangs together well as a compostion ; narratively I am really pleased with it , so some positive thoughts there and some negative . I have no idea what the judging panel will think of it , and no idea whether it will be selected for the exhibition . Its basically oil over a photomontage , and it sort of grew - I had no real idea of what it would look like when I started it ; overall I am fairly happy with it , might fine tune it a bit . It gets handed in on Friday 10th June , so we'll see..............and no, the canvases don't slope - I photographed at the last moment.
If it's not selected , at least it gives me a chance to completely re-vamp for next year....................
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