I return to the loft to find my rash decisions with ‘SMILE’ hadn’t rendered it unworkable as I had feared. No, it’s nowhere near as bad as I thought it was when I left last week.
Out come the chalks and the paintbrush. Is this painting? I am using a paintbrush, but not paint. Though there is plenty of paint on this canvas. There is plenty of other media too. Too many to remember, in fact.
So, chalky white glow is applied with the help of a paintbrush.
I have a yearning to add some sort of crack across the wall, so I now find myself sifting through photos on this old Mac trying to find one I’ve taken in the past year of a cracked wall which has since been knocked down.
In other news: I have been graced with a stinking cold, which isn’t helping me get things done. I also received my first neon light in the post – a kitsch/naff pink neon Playboy bunny. What can I say? It was very cheap, and will be ultra-helpful for reference purposes – another ‘tool’ for ‘the artist’. It also lends the place an air of seediness.
I never found the cracked wall photo – I had to give up and do some actual painting. Frustration took over and a bottle of water was poured and trickled down the surface. It may not have helped progress but it has eradicated a massive chunk of preciousness that had mounted up over the werk I had already done on this painting...
Later: At last, ‘SMILE’ is beginning to look the part, but I must crack on if I am to finish today. I have a deadline to meet: There is a competition I want to enter, the closing date is tomorrow.
Out comes the sandpaper… Then the fingers, rubbing in paint… Then the brush, more paint, knocking it back… I take the beast outside to get some distance: there are flaws that need attention. It falls over, flat on its front, NOoooooooooooooooooooooo!
Off comes the masking fluid… More white paint, this time delicately brushed to give a little more faint glow. I also touch up some water-marks around the lettering. Then it’s outside to be photographed: SMILE!
And that’s me done.
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