Supermarket Battle part 5

Had a couple of things coming together to push me to get this latest supermarket print going.  One was that I had been asked to be an artist in the Belmar Art Walk, an annual event in town with artists in various locations around, making art, displaying art, or both.  The other thing is that we have a critique scheduled next week, and I want to have something to show.  My Kean class ends this week, so I had to get what I could from the book about the Bayeux Tapestry I had checked out and return it, which I did this past week.  I have sketched this idea a lot on paper over the last year; above is recent one showing the effect of studying the tapestry.  (the figure standing over the u-boat is very much a variation of boats being made for the Norman invasion)  This past week I searched the tapestry for a model for someone hurling beets through the air- my substitute for the comet seen in the original artwork- below I was working out some of these ideas.

Today I finally started working (above) on the wood block.  We've seen versions of the two figures on the right before, but these are more anatomically accurate, plus have the advantage of the correct wardrobe, some of which I have left over from my time working there.  The two rough figures on the left are place holders right now, taken from a pair of soldiers facing off with battle axes.  They fit well  into the composition, but I'm not sure why the produce employees would have the axes.  I'll think about that in the coming days.  Below, today's drawing session was on location in the side gallery at the Boatworks, which was available and saved me the effort of taking out and setting up a folding table.  I had brought a nice assortment of supermarket prints, plus my most recent block, so I could demonstrate what I was working on today.