Circus tile - 19 Apr 2025

Not my circus, not my clowns?

Whatever. The tile design that I originally reproduced on paper - see here - and it seemed an obvious next candidate for one of my 10x10 cm gesso ‘tiles’. Given the difficulties of transferring a pencil design onto gesso, I decided to make the underlying geometry a bit messy like so:

Underlying pencil design of circus tile

The idea of the ‘shading’ here is to make the final result more grainy and potenitally more interesting.

Painting and colours

So the ‘circus’ label was due to the red/yellow/blue colours (same as the first time I did this) ended up looking a little strange. After a lot of fiddling about with (for example) layers of a single colour (with medium) on top after the initial colours.

Final version of circus tile

It has an interesting look, like a faded poster for a circus. I guess.