St Margaret's Loch in egg

I don't know about you, but I have at least a thousand passwords now to everything. And I am not exaggerating. The amount of times I've locked myself out because I can't remember my own password. You know at the time, I am sure I'll remember or I promise myself to make a note of it somewhere. Yeah right. So the short of it is, you are extremely lucky (aren't you pleased?!) to be getting my newest exciting post. 

Volume 3 of my documentation is taking ages. For someone who got asked (along with everyone else apparently) where was all my work for the semester, I seem to be having a lot of difficulty fitting everything in. I know, if the documentation was just for marking perhaps I would be more strict and limit the number of photos, but because I selfishly want it as a record for myself to kick start me into third year, I want to put more not less in. But less is always more so they say. Here are the first egg tempera paintings I did this semester. I am relatively proud of myself that I bought pigments and mixed the paints with egg myself. Thanks to Koo Schadler's excellent manual http://www.kooschadler.com/. As you can see I'm far off Koo's level and I truly wish I could get to one of her workshops to see if I am on the right track but unfortunately she lives in the USA. 

So, this is strange. Well I find it strange. I like the look and feel of these first paintings (a triptych) and I think I'm getting across what I want to, but at the same time I don't like them because my egg tempera technique is not great. So I like them but I am not happy at the same time.  I am happy for you to have your own thoughts of the matter of course! Oh and I should say, the people are based on a photo by John Patrick Skating, St Margaret's Loch which can be found on the National Gallery of Scotland website. 

The Other (left panel)

The Other (central panel)

The Other (right panel)