I wanted a deep, dark blueness to this next painting, like a feeling of the great expanse of a warm summer night surrounding me, my stone, the moon.
The painting in the image below (from my Mrs Pool(e) project) was the substrate for it. It’s always a dilemma whether to paint over older things but that’s what I did in this case, working over several days until the original had all but disappeared.
A canvas from You Lived Here Mrs Poole became the substrate for Isolation 3
I paint, draw, wipe, erase. Traces remain. Today is built on yesterday; it changes tomorrow.
Early stage of Isolation 3: Washes of blues covered in charcoal and graphite
Isolation 3: Building up textures and marks.
Isolation 3: Eroding some of the blackness and washing with more blues
Isolation 3: Blues becoming more as I want them but stone still needing more work.
Lockdown studio
Isolation 3: traces of the original painting showing through.
Isolation 3
I kept coming back to it, not entirely happy but eventually I got there. It’s finished.