This is a painting that I did quite a while back which has been on my bedroom wall. It's a detail of a sculpture made from waste electrical products called WEEE man, (waste electrical and electronic equipment) which was outside the Lloyds building in Bristol for a while. It's painted on an old piece of cardboard, which it turns out is too heavy for the blu-tak to hold, and which fell on me as I was sleeping and woke me up. It did give me an idea though. I decided to redo it, as it looks quite crude and has faded. Here is the new version:
This is the work in progress. I used a white background as some magic marker from the previous page has bled through. The 'Indian ink' refers to a drawing of New York which I didn't like and painted over, but I might keep the writing.
I've used biro for this drawing. I did want to use marker pen, but for some reason they aren't able to write over the paint, so it was good old Bic pen to the rescue. I think I prefer it actually. With lots of colouring the biro ink goes shiny over the paint, so it looks similar to the marker pen, but with a finer line.
This is the next stage of the drawing:
I think the WEEE Man drawing is finished, but I am going to add some more 'clouds' to the drawing on the right. I'm thinking of painting each ring of clouds in very watery pastel watercolour and then letting it drip down the page. We'll see....
All images Copyright Rebecca Gregory 2014
