Neil Yeo was in to help me last night until almost midnight when the little tyke had to head home for sleep. I remained until 3 AM so I could finish up the canvas work. It was required to be at the museum this morning at 0700, (I was on time...Neil slept in), and in it went. So I said goodbye to her for now, but here are some shots of it as it left the shop. I intentionally make the canvas loose because there will be up to 10% shrinkage. It doesn't look great at first, but the alternative is a tarp that you can never get off again or even worse, take off and never get it back on.
All told, I had around 160 hours of overtime on this project in the past 6 weeks.
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