What a way to end a phenomenal experience! The final challenge was way harder than the heat and the semifinal, and it felt like half the amount of time, but I’m proud of trying my absolute hardest the whole way through to try to make the most out of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
It was a privilege to meet the esteemed Brian Cox
@coxusa and an absolute pleasure working beside
@katiejones_somerset and
@chloe_barnes_artist again. The biggest thanks to
@storyvaultfilms for making it all less stress and more fun with the warmth and support of all the crew. The comments my art received from the judges will stay with me and propel me on to believe in the work I can produce, so the sincerest thank you to
@katebryan_art ,
@kathleen.soriano and
@taishanschierenberg . It’s also been amazing and truly heartwarming to have gotten so many lovely comments from people in the audience and later online about my work, so thank you to those people as well, I really appreciate it!
I’d say I managed to get this painting about 40% done, imagining when I’d stop if I had all the time in the world, but I’m relatively satisfied with the way it was going when time was up, even though it was incomplete. If I had been thinking practically, I would have gone smaller and more focused in on the face, but somehow I still don’t regret the scale and composition I chose, only that I couldn’t work faster. I had plans for ways to integrate aspects of Brian’s old family photographs into the fabric behind, but I realised that probably would’ve taken about 4hrs in itself, so I couldn’t weave any narrative into this one sadly, but that was the intention.
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