After having started to work on the small portrait of my grandmother, I made a bigger painting on aluminium, but failed to make it work. I was at it for 2 weeks, every day trying to make it work, but unsuccessful so. This was an extremely frustrating endeavour.
In the process of failing with this painting, I tried looking back at more figurative elements of the photo that I had taken, but the layers just wouldn’t add up, and the work kept failing.
I tried simplifying it by adding a layer of flat perspective stencilling. I thought that the pattern would somehow help me in making sense of the whole work, but it didn’t, it only made it worse.
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