Well, this didn't work. I tried spraying a little water on the gauze on one side before adding the acrylic ink, and it's made everything run much farther and faster than I would have hoped.

Time to think again!

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End of the day, and one frame is covered, the fillets in place and edges trimmed. The other one is still in the "testing" gauze. I was hoping to finish both today, but it's not a job to rush. The gauze has a bit of an independent mind, and I am very conscious that the frame is narrow and unsupported.

Still, quite good progress, I think!

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Sketch done by eye from a photo of the previous overlay - very much something I wouldn't have tried a few years ago. Acrylic marker on gauze - it would have been much easier with the gauze held taut.

I wonder whether this would be better for the overlays?

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I need to make, or have made, some strong, stiff, light frames for the gauze overlays. The current suggestion is to use some steel with an incomplete square cross section, and then find some way to attach the gauze.

Can anyone suggest solutions to either of these challenges?

I'm in the north west of the UK, near to Liverpool.

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I really think that this is going to work. It works better from further away, and I still need to work out how to mount the gauze and whether I need to tweak what I put on them.
But here is Nefertiti, hovering in imagination over the excavation of the city her husband built.

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I've spent the morning working on the violets, inserting them in their new fabric, and beginning to contrive the cascade. One of the leaves has winkled itself out of the fabric, so I'm pausing to regain calm and temper!

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