SWES13

Current studio state... I have everything in piles and areas ready to be put up. currently trying to figure out what is going to go where.

Starting to piece together some pieces to see how to install them. metal is acetone transfer, piecing together of print and paylite. Potentially using print to accentuate aspects- such as the shadow cast by the paylite being out from the wall.

I am collaging onto the walls. using the imagery and perhaps the style of my smaller earlier collages. using the same imagery or colours to link all the works together. I want them to be read as a whole rather than as individual pieces but for those individual pieces to be able to stand up on their own.

The etching changes as to where on the wall it is. on the back wall (pictured here) the design can be seen when flat on the wall, the positioning of the lights cast a shadow of the scratches. I like the effect this shadow brings. You can't really bee the etched lines over the glass but you can see the image, and because its a shadow not a drawing it looks really interesting on the wall.

I did another one with the floral imagery. It turned out quite interesting and an almost ghostly image? delicate and somewhat subtle to look at.

I have the hydrangeas in a few places- printed from magazine collages and cut out in paylite, also in one of the smaller paintings. I needed something that would kind of resemble the other pink design. I kept it as a line drawing and sized for the longer pieces of sheet metal I have (about three A3 lengths) I ended up acetone transferring the image onto the metal which turned out quite well.

making of the hydrangeas, I played around a little with gradients filling the flowers in, for now the line drawing will stay a line drawing

some of the pieces I am working with the my final install. I have the copper gold leaf on the small painting, also copper nails. I thought having some of the smaller paylite flowers done in gold leaf would be good to link the imagery and materials together.

I put everything into piles as to what they were. each plant print pile has 3-5 copies in different sizes. as well as the paylite cutouts and supplies from Bunnings.

initially I was just editing the design for the glass etching, I needed it to be longer. but I quite liked the white space left at the top of the image. It gives some breathing room to an otherwise very excessive composition.

Liam was so kind and got the pieces cut out at work. I had to weed the shapes, taking out all the little pieces to get them to ‘final form’ I used a scalpel to clean up some of the edges

the final pages of vectors that Liam needs for the machine to know what to cut out. I have a variety of shapes taken from drawings and my smaller collage works. excited to see how they turn out

I wanted to be able to collage onto the walls and use some better paper for this too. I got them printed on A3 paper on 250gsm paper. means the paper is more durable and can hold its own- likely to be bending out from the wall and things like that.

all of the single page files. taken from hi-res scans of my collages and from drawings.

continuing with the masculine vs feminine thing. the masculine being the architecture or support for the female imagery. I used wall filler to create a surface on a piece of wood about 2mm which and used line cutter tools to carve out the design. 

making the vector images for the paylite to be cut out of. I played around with what things to get done and how to get the vectors in illustrator that I haven't really used at all before this point.

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