Although I haven't been to Geevor this week, I wanted to work on a larger charcoal piece to try and get better defined shapes, and practise precision when using this very loose medium. I chose this photograph which was very dark, but I like the strong square shapes in it. This fuse box and switches is in a building immediately adjacent to the man-lift housed in Victory Shaft.
I toned the paper all over initially before building up layers of dark tone to define the shapes. Finally I lifted some highlights out with a plastic eraser.
My original intention was to abstract these shapes into a painting, but the more I look at it I think it would be interesting to attempt a cut-paper drawing (effectively a collage). Still musing...
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