Paper-cut workshop and development

 Whilst working on this particular experiment I found that what had been cut out seemed to bright in and of itself I added some black tone to it to emphasise the lighter areas further and to contrast more with base it is places upon and taken from.

 I decided to experiment with using letters as a way to gather preferences and ideas for when I do my title pages I began by simply removing the letter and having it stand up from the page I found this looked quite boring by itself so I decided to try backing it on one of my photographs of the texture of rust to make it figuratively look like what it will eventually represent.

Following this I decided to develop this further and try the whole work and incorporate paint this time and my results varied in successfulness in my own opinion and i feel that some are viable options to utilise in the future

I feel this is my least successful as to me it seems quite boring being all just the rust tones, therefore i feel that if I were to do this again in the future I would include another colour to represent what once was over this like how we paint the metal on skips or panels and as it rusts away we can see the rust bleeding through the pain as it is chipped and worn away.

 I found this to be my most successful as it better represents rust than my others and stands vibrantly against the background I have placed it upon which is actual rust

I then tried to lay this against other backgrounds to try to re contextualise how it looks and give new meaning to the piece.

Further Observational Sketches And Experinentation

 I began with a line drawing of the object I was studying and then went on to focus on sections with different parameters and drawing styles

 After these I decides to try drawing but creating my tone from paint and layering it up to get my darker tones and leaving it relatively clear for lighter tones.

I further continued these incorporating a wider variety of media. I began this process by creating a sketch in each media as to clearly show a comparison

 

 Unlike my others which incorporated acrylic pain to create the ton over the sketching media in this one I created the entire piece using watercolour pencil, I found this to be a semi effective but time consuming method so i would try to utilise it again but not on a very large scale.

 After deciding that working over pencil was my most effective method I then went onto a far larger scale than i had been working to, I found this a challenge as getting the tones correct on such a rage scale was more difficult that I had originally anticipated but if I had to do it again i would feel a bit more confident doing so.

Following these I did an experiment using oil paint on a metal plate to see the effect I could achieve, and overall I am pleased with the result that I obtained using this media and I feel that it would be a very viable method for achieving my final outcome.

Andy Warhol oxidation paintings (1978)

How Warhol uses the acids on copper based metals brings out a variety of different tones which contrast and compliment with one another. I find these pieces fascinating to look at as they show so much movement and I notice something different every time I look at them intriguing me. 

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Andy Warhol focused for the first time on the exploration of abstraction. While paintings he made in the 1960s with repeated blocks of imagery forming a patterned surface—and even some early experiments in the 1950s suggest a certain abstraction—his abstract works in the late ’70s and ’80s have no discernable representational imagery. With these paintings, often created in large series that included mural-sized works, the artist dives into the beauty and mood of color and texture in a way he had not done before. Yet, Warhol’s delving into abstraction is not without coy references and plays between what’s real and what’s abstract. For example, the Shadows series are abstract paintings of what is ostensibly a “real” shadow. In December 1977 Warhol began the Oxidations, iridescent canvases made up of coppery yellows, oranges and greens. Surprisingly, the only paint used by the artist in this very “painterly” work was the metallic copper background. Warhol invited friends and acquaintances to urinate onto a canvas covered in metallic paint in order to cause oxidation. The uric acid reacted with the copper in the paint, removing components of the pure metal to form mineral salts. Some colors developed immediately while others like blue and green formed later on top of the red or brown copper oxides.  Warhol and his collaborators experimented with both pattern and coloration by using a variety of metallic background paints and by varying the maker’s fluid and food intake. Critics have made numerous comparisons between the Oxidation series and Jackson Pollack’s famous drip paintings from the 1940s and early 1950s Read more at warhol.org: http://www.warhol.org/education/resourceslessons/Oxidations-and-Abstraction/#ixzz40kM7flJI Taken From : http://www.warhol.org/education/resourceslessons/Oxidations-and-Abstraction/	These pieces link in a strong way to the work I have already been doing along with my theme and I feel that taking inspiration from these pieces in the future may benefit my work as working in his style may add another element to a piece which may otherwise end up being quite boring to look at.

Further Photography

I found these objects interesting as the way they looked showing how the silver paint had faded or flaked away giving the appearance similar to rust.

Following taking the photograph above ^ I decided to focus in on one specific section as I thought it looked the most impacting as oppose to the photograph as a whole.

I like how the metal is warped and twisted as this gives far more form to the metal.

I find this photograph one of the better ones from this selection as I like the colours within it and how theyve faded through time.

I selected this section of my photograph above as it links closer to my theme and it draws you more towards the focal point and the areas most useful to myself.

I find the colours in this intriguing as how they are fading they have left interesting abstract patterns 

I selected the photograph on the left over the one on the right as it has a greater range of colour and they dont look as saturated

I chose to utalise this object in this way as I enjoy its wide range of tones and shades and how its form isnt geometric but more so abstract as it has warped and deformed

I find the contrast of colour and tone from the faded tone of red and the bright vibrant orange of rust.