Studio Buzz: October 2012

I wanted to see how this piece looked on its own in a different space.

The top photos are a progression of my idea of looking through. I applied paint to glass which was then scraped and blown in to, when nearly dry another piece of glass was squashed on to the paint while still tacky, next on the top of the glass I drew in coloured ink, and photographed it with light shining through and close up images. The bottom two photos I sprayed paint on to brushed stainless steel for a standing 3d work, I will probably re-work this piece as I feel it is missing something.

Top photo is acrylic on board in response to the shadow forms through the needles, I didn't feel this was very successful, so next I tried sprays on card, this interested me and I decided to work further on this piece with inks, blowing and drawing them. The fourth photo shows a work on polystyrene with acrylic medium and wire mesh in layers. The last piece is on ceramic tile and I drew with wire and scraped some paint of to create motion and shadow.

I have been experimenting with sprays and layering on top with various mediums. Next I wanted to see the effect of using some of the form itself to work back into the painting while it was still wet. Sprays and pastels work as a good combination too. The last photo here shows my studio space arranged for the first crit of this project.

responses to looking through to the shadow forms

From drawings I then decided to respond to the shad forms using spray paints, next i am considering ripping the paintings to reveal another layer of looking through. First I intend to experiment some more with my sprays.

When I mixed plaster to experiment with parts of ranches and needles dipped into my mix after several disasters i thinned the mix to keep the from visible, then I noticed the sunlight through the yellow bucket the residual form with the light behind was very interesting to me. Although I continued my plaster experiment I didn't feel it worked for me. I tried to sink the branch further into plaster and then paint it.

I decided to see what would happen when i shone light through part of my installation, and focused on the shadows of the needles and the forms they created