Based on my own photo, the first of these are an attempt to paint thin and light. It didn’t last long. Where some people have this along with ‘smooth and barely present’, I’m happiest with trowelling it on and working with the edges this creates. By early evening, I had lost interest in the ice cream sky and begun an intensifying process with Payne’s grey and some bright greens and reds in the distant landscape. By the next morning, I had imagined being very close to a low cloud hanging just over the viewer’s head and frogs descending from its lower margin like Pakman.

At the moment, the sky is too yellow; I imagine with a brooding cloud over it, the shade might be closer to a livid orange.

‘Sky’ added in PhotoDirector using a glitch function. I think this can be replicated in physical form. Meanwhile, Frogs and a cursor.

I’ve yet to replicate the glitch, the frogs took precedence.

As may be evident from the deep black areas at the base and the apex of the building, the wall is green-screened to allow the video to ‘show through’. I use PaintshopPro for the green layer and PowerDirector to assemble the elements, including audio. I particularly enjoyed engineering the timing of the frogs to sit with key musical emphases. Installed on the side wall of a local building where there’s a reasonable mobile signal. Invisible to the naked eye.

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