V- Wire
Been a long time posting it feels like, but I've been busy, not just Uni wise, just Life in general. But I have been working the past few weeks. So, time for a catch up.
During the time coming up to my 30% Assessment point I started to think up a few ideas of what I could possibly exhibit, and whilst I settled on one of those ideas, there was one idea I felt needed to be done simply as an experiment.
I went down to the Workshops downstairs and asked if they had any large-ish Chipboards I'd be able to use for an experiment, they did so I primed it up and I attached a Wire to the board and secured it tightly.
From here I mixed up some paint and I originally just splattered some paint onto the board, then I started to re-think, what was the purpose of that? By doing that, what did I gain? I remembered wanting to see how the wires 'inform' the paint where to go, so starting from either sides of the ends of the wire, both ends of the sockets, I began to push my brush onto them, the paint ran down the wire creating a V shape, the movement of the wire by my brush occasionally allowed paint past the wire to drip to the floor, whilst at the same time brushed the paint upwards, the paint that made it all the way down started pooling in the centre then over spilling to drip to the floor.
By doing this exercise I learnt that, the way the paint interacts with the wire is up to me, I realized that I have to decide carefully, where to put the paint, taking things slow was another learning experience, allowing the paint time to drip down the wire seemed to create the best effects, I kept these in mind when doing my next experiments, and will continue to keep them in mind when doing the real thing.