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| K Fisher (2016) You have been and will bee [Silverpoint, 20 x 20 cm] |
Listening to Sufjan Stevens at the moment. It's taken me 2 and half hours to make my own gesso (first time!) and apply it to my canvas. I mixed refined linseed oil with it, a half oil ground, in the hope that it will provide a more flexible support for my egg tempera. I keep reading that you shouldn't use canvas for egg tempera as it is too brittle and inflexible, and therefore wood is the best support. As usual, I am stubborn and don't like taking no for an answer. The other alternative suggested was to use canvas on wood, which I have done before, but then speaking to a framer friend of mine, he said, if I keep adding wood to wood, it's just going to get heavier and the point is that a picture should be light. Sigh. Okay, well I should know in the next two weeks if I did the gesso wrong and it cracks. I'm also not sure that it might have little pinholes in it from bubbles in the gesso.
I was speaking with my niece this morning and she's been drawing pictures of the characters in the Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. She told me I could find it on youtube, so I watched an episode just now. It's kinda cool. I like the fact that the boy in it is the Cat superhero wearing a skin tight cat suit, instead of the usual catwoman. Here's a link Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir
And the rabbits, well that's the rabbit skin glue. Poor rabbit - why isn't there a vegetarian glue solution!
