Today Wednesday, I have refined my work, I wanted to give it a finished quality for display and realise that small things such as this can make a huge difference, I will decide when it is being displayed if I want lights, I think I will as it draws attention to the piece, I have used lights before around a piece that is now displayed in Warrington Museum.

 

You can see the MDF around the edge.

 

Now painted it has a better finish.

 

 

On Monday I did some quick 3 minute drawings, some water colour paintings and I added acrylic and lastly I did a drawing using pastels all of these pieces are primary drawings of my finished piece or the samples I used, I have added them to my sketchbook.

The week just gone has been spent going through and adding my further research and adding photos of my experimentation to my sketchbook, I have been drawing additional primary observational drawings, and next week I intend to do my evaluation for my sketchbook ready for hand in on Friday.

I have worked darker shading around the body and picked up lighter shading with white acrylic towards the edges of the piece I have used more white acrylic on the body to tone it down this makes the body stand out from the background, I have now managed to make the back ground and body appear separate as they were two similar in colour before, the bodies seemed to disappear into the back ground, I am now pleased with the outcome.

 The piece represents the bodies of mother and daughter trapped in time for eternity like the love and bond between mother and daughter, the mother represents me the baby represents my daughter, the colours are the colours of the rainbow but can only be picked up under close inspection.

All of this week I have experimented prior to putting my experimentation to good use on the body mould, these are photo's of my progress so far.

firstly I added charcoal.

I rubbed the charcoal into the mod roc.

You can see I have started adding a little bit of colour and wax to the mod roc background.

I added wax to the baby mould first before the larger body mould.

 

I started adding coloured wax to the body working from the head down, I thought it to dark so added plain soy wax.

Still to heavy, I lightly added white acrylic paint.

At this stage I wanted to high light, I did this using more white acrylic paint, I feel this has softened the look and given the folds in the garment more depth.

I feel there is still something needed to give the body more separation from the background I shall give this some thought over the weekend.

 

Last Friday I started experimenting with colours on mod roc I used water colours, acrylic and some paints with a metallic hint to them. I have decided that I will concentrate my efforts on the mother and child piece, I don't want to see the mod roc it looks unfinished this is why I decided to experiment with new and existing techniques for example, I have never tried to create an aged look using paint as well as wax before, this is why I have experimented with both and material to get an idea of how it could work on the material on the body mould.

I also experimented with netting and wax to get different aged looks to my pieces, I tried tearing the material off which had set with wax which gave a skin like effect, I tried dark shading which almost looked like mould or weathered paint that had tarnished over time this is great as it reminds me of the bodies found in Pompeii, and to add to the connection between the piece and the model, she has visited and seen the bodies that where left from the molten ash from the volcano at mount Vesuvius.

I then chose to experiment with batik wax on existing casts and moulds I have made.

I added colour to the wax from the samples below, I then experimented with soy wax as well.

 

There is a piece of net over the face I am trying to get an idea of how the garment will look on the body mould with wax on it, the wax in this photo is still wet.

 

I love the marble effect on this sample.

This is left over wax from my experiments, I like the mixture of colours.