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Person on the Prom
by Peter Grant - 09:14 on 24 September 2024
Two years ago, in Blackpool, I came upon someone fast asleep on one of the benches on the upper Promenade.
I knew some day it could become a linoprint, and about a year ago I began work. I wanted the contrast between the red of the jacket and the black miniskirt, and although I acheived this, I was not happy with the result.
I recut it (especially the hands) several times, eventually printing the two blocks using the Ternes Burton registration system.
Cutting fishnet tights in lino I deemed to be impossible, so I made a photopolymer line block which I printed by hand over the painted flesh tone.
Getting close!
Still something was missing. My daughter favoured seagulls, I thought a string of lamps - even though it was daylight.
Walking along the prom near north Pier recently I saw a crazilly haphazard string right down by the railing. My camera managed to catch it, and by carefully stencilling each lamp with a sponge exactly as it appeared in the photo - the print was at last finished.
Edition of ten copies.