Scroll three has probably become scroll 2, after looking at doomscroll 1 and 2 next to each other the discrepancy between the sizes feels off.

One is much much bigger than the other. Almost drowns it out.

Along with this, when I started working on the much bigger scroll it didn’t feel like a scroll. Its width lost the vertical nature of scrolling and drew the eye across. I’d originally assumed that extending its length would counter this but it didn’t. The eye will just be on one section at a time which meant it felt horizontal in the moment you observe it.

Old scroll:

if I’m honest, theres evidence in the technique that I’d already given up half way through and began to use this canvas as further experiment as to what the ink would do.

So ‘scroll three’ sits somewhere in the middle of the two scrolls I’ve already created. I’d also experimented with inks and dripping (a dangerous game as it’s hard to get that right). Nothing felt right with that medium. Basically… nothing at all was feeling right so I went back to the drawing board (in my case, quite literally)

Im now experimenting with Lino cut and have some oil based fabric inks to print directly onto the canvas.

I’m using the Lino cut to replicate textures from the quarry rocks near my house to then print onto the scroll as background. I’m then painting butterflies rare to the conservation area that I live and work near, to cascade down the scroll and then turn into abstract patterns towards the bottom