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Thank-you, Alex. I really enjoyed working on the textures and colours. I think I might (in fact, I started yesterday) rework the mouth as it is a bit glaring - too ugly and not finished enough. I think I am guilty of copping out too soon with certain things such as the mouth or the eyes because is is a great effort to retain the suggestiveness and get the details, which, when I actually do them, I find are most important.
Thank-you also, Ilaria. I find the subject of dreaming, like the subject of migraine (as in "Self-Portrait with a migraine") quite an interesting one to explore as it is an intangible thing, unlike the figure itself. The figure - well, the thing about the figure that I am most drawn too - is the solidity and tactility of it, and to express something intangible by those physical aspects is quite exciting because of the extreme oppositeness of the mental and the physical. Similar to the mirror-world of domesticity in "Sweeney Todd" (as I've seen it in the film version): quite fascinating.
Another influence was, in fact, David Kassan's backgrounds. I had been thinking how interesting and exciting it might be if he used the type of paint (brush work and impasto) he uses in his background in the actual figures - keeping the extreme sense of reality and three-dimensionalism, but using less obvious paint i.e the kind of heavy metal type of paint he used in "Approaching Noise". I think that would make for some really exciting work.
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