Did four paintings since last week. Discovered newspapers to be good base for painting. Tried working with pen & ink and watercolour. These papers are really nice. They absorb the paints easily and gives dull inward feeling once dried. I think the black lines with whites thrown in between have made the paintings more fairytale like.
Newspapers give a feel of immediacy, a certain 'now'ness as also a sense of decaying. A slow feel of getting worn out. While I painted I realised the straight and curved black lines, the chiaroscuro's and the streaks of colours here and there on the shadowy backdrop of greying 18 pt/12pt streams of letters can create a kind of distant magic that is real as well as unreal at the same time.
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