Following on from the Church and the Mosque images that I worked on and posted on Twitter, here is the combination of the photos and the painting once it was combined and then applied to a 38″ x 38″ canvas:-
A4 sheets are cropped after printing and then assembled with masking tape.
Ironing of the individual sheets proved difficult to begin with.
I was always expecting some roughness to emerge, and was eventually pleased with the “old photo” type effect that began to happen.
I kind of got the hang of it eventually though and so the ones at the top are neater than the earlier ones at the bottom edge. No matter though as can be seen, as it comes together very well when stretched up on canvas.
After coating with two layers of watered down PVA glue and drying off I finished the whole thing with a black marker.
I checked on Google for the phrase which had popped into my head from the old “Play School” kids program from the 60’s and found that it was also a book of poetry by Sinead Morrissey and a series of silk screen prints by an artist called Kate Banazi (different from my work and very stylish)
For myself, I like the tension that is created by the window idea and the thing with the windows in the picture and the picture as a window. Or perhaps a window within a window within a picture. The Hand writing is a reference back to the “In from the Cold” painting from the previous post about the Berlin Wall.
So, a long build up to this with the photos and the original painting, but I am happy for the final piece to be completed in one sitting more or less.
As I said previously though, I think there is more than one painting here.