These days the whole of my house is filled with the smell of turpentine and linseed oil. And it's glorious! The reason for this pervading odour? Well, whereas my sculpture studio and workshop are located in my back garden, my painting studio happens to be a room in my house, and after a twenty year break I have returned to oil painting (having previously been working mostly in acrylics, painting-wise); hence the gloriousness of this much-miss smell - and the memories it triggers.
I'm currently working on a 1.5m x 1.2m oil painting called 'National Mesmeric'. It's based upon the BBC's TV
Test Card F that was used from 1967 till the late 90s but I'll reveal more about it in a later post, once the painting is finished. For now here's a picture of me working on it.
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When I was a very young child, I asked my dad what that green thing was on the test card. He replied, a doll. Some time later when we were watching a movie which had a scene with skulls on the floor, I asked "why are there dolls all over the floor?" Everyone was confused by my question. I was corrected with the new word of skull. Nobody else was able to see the shinny green skull until I got some friends to stare at the test card years later when I was in my twenties. After about thirty minutes, all three off my friends could then see the shinny green skull. I wonder how many other kids, like me, could only see the skull and not the doll's body.
Yes! I thought it was a skull too! I couldn't work out why there was a green skull on the test card. It wasn't until a few years ago that I realised it was the body on a clown doll.
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