Your Banshee painting with the candy jar? I haven’t seen it post-spill, obviously, but could the splatter become part of the image somehow? Kind of a fourth-wall thing? Sorry if this is unhelpful nonsense…
I tried to post a photo of it with Tumblr Mobile yesterday (Considering mobile’s track record, you’ll probably see it on Tuesday) after it happened and Tinsnip and I stood around in a distressed humming panic. She arrived not a minute and a half after it happened. I answered the door with my hands full of napkins dripping with red-brown ink.
I’m trying to find some way to work around it, but it is playing merry hell with my composition. I faded it and washed it out quite a bit, peeled back some of the paper, and painted some elements in that the spill flooded, but it’s still a pretty present element. I’m still working on ways to push it back. It’s over one of her hands and runs down both her legs from the knees to her ankles. It’s also covering lots of the tilework and a good portion of an area that was supposed to be white or cream colored.
Here’s how it looked when I did it (you’ll see this image posted later after the mobile app frees it from its grasp):
And here it is this afternoon:
So so far the tactic has just been lightening the stain especially aggressively within her limbs and painting elements that are high contrast like her boot and the white strip to help push the stain into the background. I may have to apply a purposeful stain toward the ~middle upper left-ish~ area to balance this out if the elements I had planned for the top don’t have as much weight as I hope they will.
This would happen to a painting I’m doing for a show that’s based on specific lyrics to a song and not just something I’m fucking around with, right?
