I’m afraid I haven’t a picture of the first piece I produced as my camera is broke. It was inspired by the pictures of the slanted bank of the canal. The white stains on it really captured my attention. I decided to paint on a completely smooth surface. I am accustomed to painting on canvas which has a grain. I decided a black bin bag would be suitable. I was enraptured by the way the paint falls, drips and rolls down it. I make the paint especially watery and liquid and applied it using a sponge. This proved great as it allowed me to pull and drag the tainted white in alien ways to me.
These are two experiments that I feel have great possibilities. The one on the left was made using toilet roll and latex. I dipped the toilet roll in latex and layered it. I was excited by how the latex changes colour significantly once it has dried. It has a coarse, rough feel which is interesting. The one on the right was made using Styrofoam, silver spray paint and cardboard. I attached the Styrofoam to the brown cardboard and sprayed. The spray paint dissolves the Styrofoam and creates an effect as seen in the photo. I love the way you can control the result by how much you spray and how lightly or heavily you do so. I also like the smooth texture it creates.
I applied latex over it later. It gave something that seemed very industrial and synthetic a rather natural appearance. It looks rather disgusting.
This was made using salt, red ink and latex and water. I mixed a tiny drop of red ink with the salt and placed it on cardboard. I then dripped latex over it. It doesn’t really apply to any of the photographs I had taken. I am fascinated with latex and am just going crazy looking at ways to manipulate it. I love how all these experiments are turning out abstract. I am normally rather figurative so this is a complete revelation.
I glued strands of a black bin bag to cardboard and placed latex on it. Then I ripped it off days later. I love how it keeps it shape. I love how the latex would suggest different things to different people. I also like how when light reflects of the black bag it creates a light blue sheen. Its rather poetic.
I made this by mixing random paints in a pot with offshoots of straw from a bail at home in my shed. I didn’t like the effect it had on its own so I applied latex over. It doesn’t look necessarily great but it is interesting to touch. I am really getting interested in making things people can touch. Normally people are not allowed touch paintings. Feeling something is a great way of seeing it in a more informed and perhaps unusual way.
