Continuation of my Scratching
Today I continued my scratching technique and after a conversation with Amber about my work, she said that my rock renditions with scratching are definitely in the right direction. I was instructed by her to remove any images off of my wall that weren’t related to my scratching so that I could have complete inspiration from only those works. She also rearranged my works in an aesthetic exhibition arrangement so that I considered them as actual artworks as opposed to only exploration.
Doing this made it a lot easier to continue my work by using inspiration from my pieces. This is important because the task for this week was to make artworks in response to something you liked in your previous made work. It is quite similar to that of the Palimpsest Brief that we had in semester one.
Today I explored the use of colour. I painted yellow for my first layer and once dried, painted blue on my second and scratched away. This artwork explored how I can use scratching in different ways, not just to describe an image but also to create a tonal difference through removal.
I also explored my use of gridding through layering. On my first layer of paint, I scratched out a series of lines both horizontal and vertical, and then repeated this process again on top but with a different colour for my new layer. I was interested in seeing whether the scratching would reveal my scratching underneath the second layer. I found that I could see the scratching underneath which revealed the white of the paper but I think that thicker lines would create more of an impact because the etching tool that I was using created very thin lines.
Today was a successful day because I found myself having fun with this exploration and I also managed to complete a few works that I was happy with. I am keen to come in tomorrow and continue my art-making because I am interested in further exploring how different paints (house paint and acrylic paint) react to this technique – how fast do they dry/not dry? how would the drying time affect the scratching if I were to draw off of an image?
Note* I wasn’t able to take photos of last week’s work or today’s work because my phone’s back camera broke over the weekend.
This was the only photo I was able to take which was on my front camera hence the bad quality.