Studio Work Development: Mild Steel

Mild Steel Cut-outs with Painting Behind:

• Combining the painting and the mild steel frame idea after previous designs. This does work quite well, and I think it would work even better on a larger scale.

Further Painting Experiments

 

• Sketchbook swatches

• Emerald green acrylic paint with white paint overlaid.
• Yellow Paint splatter works quite nicely to contrast the textures. 

Emerald Green and Yellow Painting:

• Close up of details. 

Reflections of Painting:

• Using the ink rolling technique I was able to create some great textures with the paint. Rolling it causes this slightly bumped texture, and I also scraped the roller which created a more blended look similar to Richter's abstract paintings. 
• I do like the mixture of different textures and the up and down and left and right strokes which create a sort of checkered pattern as some peer's have stated. 
• The green hues make the painting reminiscent of landscape paintings that I used to do. 

Mild Steel Bending Testing:

Reflections 

• The subtle bends in the metal would work well on a larger scale as I think this could be obtainable, as this metal will be thicker and larger than the much creased aluminium. 
• A powder coated finish would be necessary for mild steel as the  steel has already began to rust.
• The colours I am thinking of powder coating it are white or chrome. 

Feedback:

• Powder paint chucked colours straight at the steel to get a variety of colours (ashy toned colours like greens blues and oranges but dulled).
• Some peer's agree that the metal should perhaps not be a bright colour, but a dull ashy tone similar to that of the raw material. 

Further Designs for Bending Mild Steel & Frame Piece:

Reflections

• I think the colour that I want my steel to be is similar to its natural colour, or the colour it goes when heated.
• Heating  a large sheet of metal in Ann's workshop wouldn't be possible, but if I was to work in small sections on the back of the metal sheet in Robs workshop with the welding tool I will be able to create a pattern like this:
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• This could be set with a clear varnish.
• This pattern may work better with no bends in the metal, so on a flat frame instead. 

Further Development: Adding Paint Behind Metal

Reflections:

• The paint details behind the cut-outs work to draw attention to the details in the paint itself.
• The contrast in colour works nicely, but I'm not sure if colour is something that would really compliment the metal frame on a larger scale. 

Testing Wall Placement of Painted Board