Hello My Deer (New work)

I've started work for this semester, and, my degree show (arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) and of course it's all going terribly! I don't know whether I am coming or going, I'm trying to balance research, journal, painting, degree show, trying to find work experience, and a project outside of uni all at once. It's a nightmare. And all of it's going wrong!

I started off painting deers for this new body of work, because I ended with them at Christmas, so it seemed like the obvious place to start off. Except at Christmas they were going so well, and NOW I've forgotten how to paint or draw anything, two things which are paramount in me passing my degree! In times of stress I find I can't relax enough to actually paint anything good. Not good at all.

Also I really love deers because they are so spindly and delicate and fragile looking. They have really slender but akward body shapes which are interesting to draw, especially when they have curled themselves up to sleep. I also think they have beautiful little faces, with big doe eyes which are full of expression and so interesting to try and capture in paint.

These are my first lot of paintings, I feel like they started off well but deteriorated rapidly. The only one I reallyreally like is the deer that is facing away (painting number 2) because me and my friend though it looked like a heart. I also kinda like the one lying down (number 3), because I tried out a different way of painting here and it seemed to work pretty well until, I tried to do it again!

Anyway I probably will continue with deers for this week trying to perfect them and get back to the standard I was working at before Christmas, then move back on to more animals again, like birds, foxes, wolves etc.