After I caught Covid in December 2020 my quarantine lasted a month. Ten days later Ontario entered Lockdown Two, with extremely strict stay at home rules. I took this as permission to dig deeper into these pieces.
I made a new mixed media ‘ground’ sheet for another set of watercolour drawings. The ground looked like chaos, overlayed with silver ink that had connected chemically to oil pastel lines, bending the light to look like fog with flashes of shine. I tore this sheet up into nine pieces, and continued my explorations into the Czech Coffee set story.
I was thrilled with the depth of colours and texture, with how the watercolour paint sat on the surface, and with the effectiveness of the pastel and chalk resists.
