Sorry Back is an egg tempera painting reimagining the little corner store we would visit with our dad growing up. Now it is the place we will meet again.

This work is inspired by a mysterious message I found written in red paint on the light pole outside of this shop that reads, "sorry courtney".

I found the image below on google maps while gathering source images of this building.  Now the letters are now covered in a ghostly coat of white paint, but we can still make out the message.

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Process:

- I stretch raw linen on a birch wood canvas support

- I prepared rabbit skin glue (size)

- mixed, applied, sanded the chalk glue gesso surface until it was buttery smooth

- pencil sketch to develop the composition and light/dark values

- pencil crayon sketch on tracing paper for colour

- panel underpainting in layers of india ink and water to build up values

- egg tempera involved may layers to achieve the dark, jewel like values (yolk of an egg and water mixed with pigments)

- little to no white and black pigment was used