Started new oil painting project, very interested in the different effects that various mediums produce. I am going to experiment to see what happens. First I primed card with gesso, then used oil paints thinned with turps and some linseed oil on parts. Then I added some splatter of metallic acrylic paint.
The colours in this image are not as vivid as in reality.

I learnt a lot from this work, I tried mixing a few mediums and put them next to each other to see what they looked like and how they appeared as they dried. I revisited the painting several times, as I think it still needs more but its time to move on to further experiments

Damien Flood gave us some text from The Tropic of Cancer, from which we were to take inspiration to  paint. I loved this idea, and the imagery that comes to mind from this text, shame we only had two weeks for this, as there is so much that we could have done.

For my next support I recycled the side of an old cooker, to see how the spray paints would react on both the shiny white side, which is the image at the top, and then the raw metal side, on the image at the bottom. On the bottom the metal seem to absorb more paint and give it a darker more sinister quality.

I decided to bring part of my original installation to display next to the above work, originally I was going to leave the wood natural and paint the base to combine the two pieces. While painting I got so absorbed that I painted the entire 3d work.

The inspiration from the installation for Shadowland Needle and the end work together. I have one last experiment to do, I am going to take the 3d work outside to see how its looks next to the trees. Great photos,could lead to some more potential for the future.

I decided to revisit these pieces on stainless steel as I felt they needed more colour and texture

I decided to progress my idea of looking through the needles and branches, by not only looking through but by using a mirror as my support, the viewers reflection would change my work as they move and interact with it.

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.