I still feel as if I’m in a bit of a late September slump, but I’ve been getting on with it. I decided it was time for a big studio clear up, as you can see from the pictures, it was a bit untidy, so clearing my space will help clear my mind a bit.
I continued to work small scale, playing with the clear film in the place of canvas around a stretcher frame. I found out that indian ink and acrylic ink is the stuff to use, it gives all kinds of nice translucencies, and washes, some brush marks show up, and sometimes it’s all blurred.
You can put a load of acrylic paint on, let it dry and peel it off, and use masking tape to take layers off. There seems to be lots of scope. But I keep looking longingly at my bundle of canvas and some big stretchers, so I may scale back up and revert to canvas/hessian for a few days and try scaling up with the clear film too. And I need to get cracking with my walk-in-able painting too now I have some clear space.
I’ll be heading into London in a few days for some much needed inspiration, hopefully that will end my slump for a while.
