{"id":14724,"date":"2023-10-10T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2023-09-25T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T17:06:32","slug":"beginning-the-overlays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/10\/beginning-the-overlays\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning The Overlays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Looking<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I had originally intended to screenprint the gauze overlays for the main Amarna panels, but it was proving difficult to find a way of doing it large enough, without excessive cost. Besides, since I have been sketching, painting, and drawing very much more often over the last few years, I’m much more willing to risk my arm (as it were) by doing it in a more immediate manner. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Akhenaten,<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

So I found a local printer who was willing to print out my manipulated images of Akhenaten and Nefertiti so I could use them as guides. They had a torrid time with a brand-new printer that kept on not doing as they expected, but they got there in the end, and I stretched my gauze over the printouts, attached to a padded board, fished out some brown inktense blocks, and got started. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Nefertiti,<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Of course it’s difficult to see where you’ve been on a gauze when the template (for want of a better term) is as strongly marked as these, so when I felt I’d been all over the image once, I drew out the template and went back in by eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still don’t consider I have all that accurate an eye for angle and form, so that was truly terrifying.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Akhenaten<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When I hung them from the laundry rack in the kitchen, however, they were “there and not there” in a very promising manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether or not these are the final versions I use (I’ve enough gauze to go again if they turn out to be the wrong colour or if I need to tweak the tones), will have to wait until I’ve been able to set them up in front of the panels, but until then, I think I can say that I’m very pleased!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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