Blog 20 May 2013
The
Extra Image
Extra
image required- my daughter said “told you so , told you to make a
spare!”
Process
and no
“its
not just a dumb way of making work ...without any craft....”David
Batchelor 2009
I peeled
the Frog tape off and the paint had leaked under it!
I had
cut up frog tape so it was 40mm wide, lots and lots of frog tape,
placed 30mm apart with the aid of tweezers and a ruler on a very dry
surface, then I had divided it all by cutting areas away so that the
effect of slatted blinds could be seen, each blind stopping at the
end of another part of window.
I
carefully pressed each length of tape down to be sure paint would not
creep under. Oh the frog tape was all placed at an angle-that did not
make the task any easier, and as the light came through the window I
was trying to communicate, it changed direction so of course did the
frog tape......
Three/
four layers of paint, not the usual number.
But the
paint had leaked and the reason I think was: I had made an impression
of trees into my background surface and because the surface was
slightly uneven the tape had not held its resistance. The surface was
not damp the underlying tree images were made two weeks ago and left.
The
image was a slatted window through which you could just make out a
tree in winter.
But the
paint had leaked.
Under14hours
left.
The
slats of the windows had to go, so that the leaked paint would go,
out came the sandpaper and off came the paint -
and
another more interesting image (another tree which I thought I had
sanded away before starting work.) emerged.
The
painting changed, so did its balance and it stood out from its crowd.
What
should I have done?
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