#wire experiments

So taking into account everything, from the V - Wire, to the first Wire Experiments on the black boards, I wanted to have a go at attempting it again, but this time on a white board, to see which worked best.

This time I used the opposite side of the same wire, with the actual plug socket being the point where the paint would jump down to the board. I also started this time, with Blue paint, then adding the Red afterwards, this still created the Purple drops but I expected that this time!

So taking in all I'd learnt from the V - Wire experiment I began to think of the next step, which in all honesty was to actually create something more visually pleasing than a V shape imprint splattered on a board. I wanted to create something more close to what I might end up with after building this wire Installation. So I decided to simply have paint drip down a wire (Finding out this worked best from my V- Wire Experiment) holding it above a board allowing the paint drops to react to the board in whatever way they chose down below. So that's what I did, I wanted to first try it on a couple of black wooden boards to see how the paint reacted to this.

I chose Red and Blue as they are two colours my brain seems to pick out most in the world, it's what I notice most.

I started with Red paint initially, as you see me above creating the piece. I  scrunched up the wire in my hand leaving a reasonable length for the paint to run down, simply watering down the paint I pressed relatively hard on the spot I wanted it to drip and simply waited for the paint to journey to the socket and drip off onto the board, as you can see it didn't always hit the board, and I kinda dig that, has an aimless quality about it. I had this square piece you see in the picture and a longer thinner piece too, they were what I just had handy at the time.

Here are the two final pieces, after the blue was added:

Now something happened when I added the Blue to the wire, the Red paint was still fresh on the wire, they merged along the way down and created a vibrant elegant shade of Purple before even reaching the board sometimes, this was unexpected, though completely obvious it was going to happen, just something I overlooked, but it was a pleasant surprise nonetheless.

I am much more pleased with these Experiments than I was with the V - Wire, whilst that experiment revealed that this method of Wire painting actually works, and I feel it needed to be done, I feel these pieces are much more what I had in mind, these are great representations of this idea I've always had of a Cosmic explosion happening inside our heads. They feel like my brain poured out onto wood.