Friday March 14th 2014

Today I went to Birmingham art gallery to see the Grayson Perry exhibition 'vanity of small differences', to see the six tapestries he created all about the British class system. They were really interesting and big and colourful, they were so detailed and complex.
I also went to the Wolverhampton art gallery to see the BP Portrait award exhibition. This was really interesting and some of the portraits were amazing.
I particularly liked the self portrait by Ian Cumberland as it was so vast and detailed. I really liked his painting technique as from a distance it looked really smooth and flat, but as you get closer you can see that it is very textured and actually quite messy, and you can see that the colours aren't really mixed that well and a lot of the colours are quite separate but look mixed as you move further away. I also really liked the background of the painting as it is interesting even though it is quite a plain colour, but I especially liked the way that the paint runs towards the bottom of painting.

I started to create my self portrait painting based on the portraits that I saw at the galleries, I printed out a photograph of my self on A4 and gridded it, I also gridded an A1 piece of white paper so that it would be easier to draw out my face. (I plan to finish it tomorrow.)