It's actually after taken two days for photos to upload....I thought blogging was supposed to be efficient! Well at least my normal notebook and the project itself is finished (even though there are elements of this project I will work with in the future)
Being away from the four walls of the studio in Wexford brought me to the workshop at home. After looking at the shapes from the newspaper, I really wanted to work with them. I am interested in the texts, maybe even more so that these shapes, but I wanted to represent them, maybe make them more permanent than the papers they came from, to highlight these shapes.....immortalise them?
After various drawings, I decided to make a triptych based on these aged newspapers. In second year I tried spreading a painting out between two canvases, and afterwards I wished I had used three. It would have flowed better. That's been in my head every time I have been working between pages or canvases ever since. That and I think that this project needed three panels.
I bought a 9mm 8x8 sheet of plywood. and divided it into three panels. I used plywood for different reasons. I knew it would be light enough for me to move and photograph on my own. The patterns I cut had lots of angles and details. These were cut with a jigsaw. After working with marine plywood for our exhibition last month, I wanted a reason to work in the workshop again.
They were sanded after cutting.....
I drew and cut the designs from sheets of A1 paper....
Then I spread the templates out on the sheet of plywood and drew around them. I measured approx 3.5 cm into each sheet, so there would be enough stability for the panel to stand without bending and breaking....not before I made this mistake first!
To make it easier to cut, I drilled into the cornors witht the sharpest bends first. This made it much easier to cut with the jigsaw later.
I used a navy blue spray paint for one panel. I sprayed some light coats, so its more of a stain. I wanted to keep the texture of the boards. When I was collecting pictures and source material for my studio wall last month, I came accross some old photos. One was a photo of my granny about eleven or twelve years ago. She always wore navy, even now its something my mother remembers. It was a favourite colour oh hers to wear, softer than black but still smart! So when I was picking a colour for the one panel that needed it, It really was the only one that worked for the project. It was hard to choose one that could work with the newpapers, seeing as they are mostly sepia toned at this stage, but I wanted to use a colour after looking at Jessica Stockholders work on "Hollow Places".
Weights to hold down the template....
After, when the paint had dried I cleaned up the design and rubbed out the pencil lines.
I sprayed one white, and sanded it lightly
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