I’ve just finished an ink sketch of Goya’s plate 39 (minus casualties) and I thought I’d add it to my blog. I found it tricky filling in behind the missing bodies as the tree didn’t seem to add up, for example a thick dead branch seems to be either coming from behind the corpse hanging upside down or out of his armpit. Since there are no sizeable branches the other side of the body I decided that he had been impaled with the stick, after all it wouldn’t have been the worst thing that had happened to him that day.
This is a first draft, next I plan to try similar drawings in charcoal, pencil, and another in ink wash before etching a version. I’ve ordered up the zinc plate from Intaglio and should receive it early next week. I’ll apply a hard ground, etch it at college, and then I’ll run off a few prints there prior to adding an aquatint at Gainsborough House print workshop. I want to add some colour to a few versions, probably with ink however I hope to source a decent aquarelle set, a medium which Jake Chapman twitted about earlier today, with reference to his ink drawing titled ‘Dinos und Adolf VII’ (2008).
I’ve titled my drawing ‘Plate 39 in a parapossible reality’ coining Ryan Ganders’ phrase.
