This past month I decided to take another crack at the Good Witches of the Between by starting with a fresh composition. I still had five fragments of the 'original' painting/photo-digital-print taped to some boxes in the studio. Here is a photo of the three remaining fragments taped up, waiting for what is to come.

I decided for this version I would not work on a cotton rag paper cut to a custom size, instead I would use a standard, 19 inch x 24 inch (48.3 cm x 61 cm) sheet of smooth surface Bristol. I taped the sheet of paper to the piece of plywood I keep on my easel for this purpose and coated the paper with a few layers of acrylic medium to adhere two of the five fragments to the paper and also create a bit of random texture. Next I traced a couple of the other fragments onto the paper. Then I began to paint with oils. Here are a few photos of the process.

Clipped to a vertical shelf support in the basement half of the studio is the current stopping point of this iteration of Good Witches of the Between. However, it is not the end. Petra printed 10 copies of a detail photo at approximately 4 inches x 6 inches onto 250 GSM, vellum finish, 100% cotton Stonehenge paper. More to come.