This is a little summer project of mine, my dad and I created a cast for a planter when I visited my parents a couple of weeks ago (The measurements are 40 by 40 by 40 cm). This weekend I started with the first planter. Biggest lesson learned so far; 20 kg concrete is not enough, not by far. Will try again next week, keep you posted. 
Petrus Christus (ca. 1410 – 1472 of 1473) a Flemish painter part of the “Vlaamse Primitieven”
Influenced by Jan van Eyck, Dirk Bouts, Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden. He influenced Italian painting his influence is best visible in the work of Antonello da Messina although it is unknown wether he influenced him directly or by his works that where acquired by Italians.
One of the artist of this week was Chuck Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington), an American photographer and painter. in his early work he is best known for making huge hyperrealistic portraits (simular to Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack).
After he suffered a seizure in 1988 that left him paralized from the neck down (Close himself refers to this day as “The Event”) he started working on large low resolution portraits .
In his work there are a lot of self portraits and portraits of other artists.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close
Video: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chuck+close&search_type=&aq=f
I’m keeping this specific LOG not to share what I think or create, or whatever it is I’m doing on my blog, but to collect my findings in this journey through art (whatever that may be) I’m on in a structured manner. Writing this entry with it’s sentences filled with uncertainty and vague statements it becomes even more clear to me how much needed this is.
To start off I looked up the word ‘Fayum’ in Google, the first hit was this Wikipedia page.
I’ ve only heard this term a few hours before writing this post, what I know now is what I heard this evening and what I’m reading now. In short Fayum is a modern term for a type of realistic painted portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt (Funerary mask). They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. In fact, the Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. (source Wikipedia)
That is all for now, here are some examples.
Photo by Yu Song
For this post I just wanted to show legs hence the name Just legs, but for some reason it is not possible to post just an image in a post and make it look good.
So now you are stuck with this piece of text telling you that what you see here is just legs and for some reason this doesn’t seem right.
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