#raushenberg

The 1st photo is of an A4 experiment where I used charcoal, gouache paint, string and sticks. I was referencing one of my walk photos and simplified it a lot to make that.

The second work was A1 size brown paper and was on an easel instead. This time I was referencing three photos. The first being of white cloth tightly tied to a chain fence, the second being a heavily damaged car with bright yellow spray paint on the windshield. The last photo I was using for reference was a heavily chewed and wripped up football I found. I took the use of charcoal from the small experiment and used that to draw the cloth and made that the focus of the artwork. I took the yellow spray paint from the other photo and added it in using gouache paint. The bright colour makes that it doesn't fade into the background.

When I was using the football for reference, I intentionally didn't have it competing for attention against everything else and had it more faded to the background, in the bottom right corner.

These are photos of my experiments of mixed media work based on Raushenberg and how unlimited his style of work is in terms of materials and ways to use them.

I used things like blue roll, watercolour paint, scrap paper and tracing paper. I used them in ways such as glueing, ripping, layering, paint trailing and dripping and scrunching.

I have learned from this that I could go a lot bigger in terms of the size of the paper. One reason is because Raushenberg was no stranger to that and second is that I would have more freedom and space with what I'm working on. It also doesn't have to be just paper either, it could cardboard or even wood. Different colours of paper would be beneficial for me for veriaty too (brown and black).

I want to go further with the materials too and really push the boundaries in what they could otherwise be used for. I could use the found objects I've picked up from my walks and implement them into my works somehow.