The canvas finally arrived on Monday. By Wednesday morning I have marked out the regulation 480mm x 480mm square I have to contain my artwerk within, and the neon design is drawn out and ready. It is the most detailed and scaled down neon I have painted yet - I envisage painstaking hours of delicate painting ahead. I will be using acrylics for the first time in a long, long time (since 1995?), and these days I like to work big and bold, not small and delicate. But I have to shrug off this straitjacket as there is prize-money at stake.
Day 1: I had some paid work to finish in the morning, but from 1.30 to 9pm I was painting and resting and painting and resting and painting and resting until my eyes couldn't focus and my arm could barely hold up the brush.
At the end of day 1 I had painted in the fine detail of the white neon forms, and put in a preliminary coat of blue glow and the black background. It is a relief to not have any blank canvas showing.
Day 2: Werking with acrylics is at least allowing me to paint over and build up the layers a lot quicker than is usual with the oil paint, though this fine detail brush werk is threatening to drive me potty.
I pack up my brushes with a lot of ground-werk covered. Now at the stage where I can start adding detail to the glow and bring the blackness in from the void.
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