During the week I had a bit of a breakthrough. I decided to take last week’s image and make it  less complete, with more space where something could happen. Last week I’d done a painting over the drawing of the TYPE factory painted over over a few lines based on the orange flats. I pasted a photocopy of the woman and man asleep over the top. As I said last week, Lucinda thought that they photocopied image was too small.

So this week I photocopied my painting and tore it up  into two parts – I’d done this digitally to give me an idea, then put the woman over the top of it. Again the image of the woman was too small so at home I photoshopped a larger image in. I find it hard to think which I like most. Also there is the issue of transparency. I talked to Maggie about the photo transfer – tried this at home, definitely worth exploring.

The whole activity reminds me of when I was very small, cutting black and white pictures of people from my Nan’s catalogue – and moving them around on the table, playing out different scenarios, making up the dialogue.

woman is too small

train people

cut up photocopy of my painting

cut up photocopies of painting with photo transfer

I also did a very rushed and unsatisfactory version of the woman with the young child and pushchair placed over a manipulated photo of Denmark Hill station which I painted over..Not sure if or how to have a better go at this.

I’d been waiting to try this but went at it too fast, headstrong, and all wrong. I may try this again but have several other ideas I might go for on day 6.