Studio work Feb/Mar 2025
- 3 March 2025
Most of this work is testing fertiliser and bleach to use on paper prior to painting.
Using bleach on an existing painting, trying to takeaway or degrade the work. The bleach doesn't takeway any paint!
Original image before bleach.
Soaking in a tray of bleach, sprayed on.
Some movement of paint.
More sprayed on bleach.
Result of bleach in tray.
Now soaking image in a tub of bleach.
Talking scale and a suggestion re painting small for focus - so I painted some family images in the same size as the original photogragh.
My grandmother and Dad making a concrete path.
Uncle Jack, Mum and someone called Chris, haymaking.
Grandad and his dog on the farm.
Patsy, Dad and someone else, with milk/cream cams.
Dairy cows on the farm.
Team of men clearing the canal.
Working with some fertiliser - soaking paper in the fertiliser prior to painting. It happens to be a bright yellow colour!
Painting on soaked paper.
Painting on soaked paper.
Paper drying after being soaked for 2 days.
Paper drying after being soaked in fertiliser.
Soaked, then painted, then back into soak.