Supermarket Battle part 11

Off from work today, so a good day to go into the Studio and make art.  Took care of a few other things while there.  They had wanted me to update my contact information, and I learned the fate of the Winter Arts Festival.  The past two years the building has held a festival around this time of year, with the walls filled with art from building residents, performances, events, etc.  This year something will now happen in late spring (which makes it less likely that we have a lot of snow, a problem at some past events), and they are working on a different system for dividing up the wall space.  When I know more, I'll share it.

Mostly I was going there to work on the current block, the latest in the supermarket series.  I found my collection of photocopies of the Bayeux Tapestry, a source of images for this block, stuck it in the tote bag that already had the block and my cutting tools, and brought that with me to the Studio.   Probably should have looked at those photocopies first.  Didn't realize how small some of those images are on the page, and I didn't have anything with me to magnify with.  So I had to put off adjustments to the figures and instead worked on the perspective stuff.  Adjusted the perspective on the display cases, the floor tiles, etc.  Added nothing new, just made it look better.  I don't believe in using perspective systems, giving them just the briefest mention in my drawing classes before moving on to teaching the students to draw from observation.  (a number of my students were impressed with my boardwalk prints on display at the college, and the use of perspective was one thing they often mentioned, but I informed them it was all made up)  The first several supermarket interior spaces were drawn from observation, but most since have been made up, using the vocabulary of those early prints.  I'm not concerned with producing perfect renditions of space that exist, just providing plausible settings for the ideas, and good use of perspective makes that easier.

The current block drawing does not look much different than it had before, just a little better in subtle ways.  I try to eliminate the potential distraction of confusing space, so that the narrative is what people see most.