I’ve been putting off this job for ages, but the cold has driven me indoors. I was out to enjoy the blue sky, fluffy white clouds and tiny fluffy flakes of snow but there’s not much I can reasonably do outside other than enjoy the sight and get some sun.
So, paintbrush and black masonry paint, and back to the job I began yesterday. Painting a pair of concrete demon statues. Rough concrete. With the odd hole, stone pimple, deep creases, I forced black paint into corners and creases yesterday and today I am going back to shove black paint into the crevices I missed. Working with a torch, kneeling, standing, bending, crouching, each demon took around 90 minutes yesterday and an hour today. And I have still missed odd bits where bare grey concrete shows through.
Tomorrow, the fun part. I have seen these bloody demons in my dreams. Getting out the colours and picking out the eyes, the horns, the claws and the nostrils. These statues are fabulous. The expressions are detailed, the demons have muscles and six-packs and wicked claws. I want to bring all of those details out. I want them to stand out.
And yeah, I want to scare the shit out of the postman.
Julia Chalkley 