Supermarket Battle part 12

Nothing on the schedule for today, so a good day to go back to the Studio.  This time I brought what I had forgotten last time, my 8X Lupe.  It's a magnifier associated with photography.  You rest it right on top of the object to be examined, the clear plastic base allows light in, and the fixed distance results in a focused view of the object, the equivalent of 8 times the size of the original.  Commonly found in photography businesses, but those aren't so common any more in themselves.  Luckily I got this one a long time ago.  As you can see in the above photo, in the copies the figures are quite small, and without magnification I couldn't see any details, but with the lupe I could now adjust the shapes of faces, feet, and other body parts of the characters borrowed from the tapestry.  So my first task in the Studio today was fixing those kind of details in the two figures in the upper left corner (below) so that they better match the original source.  The two figures in the foreground of the block did not need a source, as they are based on my experiences of working in that location.  I could even dig up those clothes if I had to.  Made a few minor adjustments there, too, and to the lettering on signs and boxes.

With that I felt ready to continue cutting.  Today it was the display area in the bottom left corner- citrullus lanatus, better known around here as watermelons, which are taking the place of decapitated heads in the original tapestry.  Originally I had planned to use pineapples, but I did a little checking and realized that it was a new world fruit and completely unknown to the various parties in the Battle of Hastings and creating the Bayeux Tapestry.  On the other hand, watermelons were not a common fruit in England, but they have their origin in Africa and had been brought to Europe by the Moors in the century before the battle, so they can be a plausible item.  The Latin name on the sign (and on the produce boxes to the right) is a reference to the original tapestry, which included lots of text throughout, all in Latin.  Didn't cut the designs into the watermelons on the floor yet, as I would prefer to cut the floor around them first, so another day for those.