Sketchbook Experimentation/ More Designs and Ideas

• This is what I am aiming for with one of my ideas on Monday - where I will create a framed image using mild steel, and then weld the top sheet onto the frame which has been distorted and cut out. I will then powder coat it either chrome or another colour. 

Steel close up - painting of detail. 

Abstract gouache painting experimentation. 

• Some more designs for my second idea which is making a clay sculpture using the material approach I developed last term, after my clay outcomes worked really well. This would be a much larger version, of multiple folded clay pieces joined and moulded together. 
• The form has become more important than the surface for now, but I would love to get something like this cast in a metal material. 

Paint Experiments

• This abstract paint experiment worked really well, using metallic gold paint and the edge of a paint brush, and rolling it down the page. For me the process of this was similar to the process of sculpture as it's quite thick paint rolled in a sculptural way. 

• Painting test - gold on black. This worked really nicely and its become apparent that I'm increasingly connecting back to the thing that originally inspired my practice which is the details within materials. 

• Playing with wire/ sculptural form with voids. 

Reflection:

• My practice has taken on three main concerns:
• 1) The importance of details within materials. This has overtaken my practice and my obsession with silver toned materials or bright reflective surfaces has taken a step back. Although I still engage with silver and stainless steel, I feel like it wasn't giving me the desired form. Details within materials has always been at the forefront of any idea or inspiration I have had in the past and I feel that I need to go back to this concern and exercise it fully. 
• 2) Form. This has also overtaken other concerns and interests in my practice, and I am now working to develop an art object - whether than is a sculpture or painting or both. 
• 3) The Process of making art is the final concern for my practice this term. I want to focus on my engagement with the material more, and create more art-objects rather than conceptual ideas. 
• I have taken a step back from the themes of critiquing capitalism within my practice, though these threads are still relevant. I accept capitalism as a way of life now and don't have anything to say on the subject - instead perhaps change my practice to suit a capitalist society, so perhaps by making my work more commercial and less conceptual, I am still in fact critiquing the market. 

Future Development:

• Try a large scale piece on board or canvas, using this style and metallic paint. 
• Try using an ink roller with the metallic paint to create a similar effect on a larger scale. 
• Research canvases.
• Research more process artists - Lynda Benglis again.