Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

Experimentation and Idea Development

20/01/16

After using wire and once coat plaster to create a scale up model, I began looking into using fine casting plaster to create a smooth surface, as well as using colours to incorporate my research into colours that are associated with emotions. And also started looking at a way to apply the colours. 

I started by mixing up plaster and applying it, when it was thick enough, to numerous pieces of cardboard. Once on the cardboard, I smoothed it out so that it would cover as much of the surface as possible and then waited for it to dry. 

While the plaster was drying, I began to crape it back so as to get a smooth surface. This left me with small and unusual but interesting pieces of plaster that had a lot of texture and shape to them. I kept these for later possible experiments.

When the plaster that remained in the bucket had dried, I broke them off of the sides (by squeezing the bucket) and used one coat plaster to apply the various sized shards of plaster to one of the pieces of cardboard. 

I began painting them before realizing that I didn't like the effect of having painted pieces of plaster, and also that the one coat plaster wasn't the ideal technique to stick the shards on, as they kept falling off.

With the other piece of cardboard, which I hadn't scraped back as it had dried before I had the chance to do so. Leaving the texture, I propped it against a wall and watered down some paint to a consistency that wasn't too thin and watery, and not too thick that I couldn't pour it. 

Once the paint was mixed I poured it over the plaster, careful as to avoid pouring it all in one place. I did this with both the Primary colours and the Secondary colours, layering them up until there wasn't as much white showing, and then got some paint straight out of the container and flicked it on to add texture and bolder colours, since the colours I had poured on had mixed together and become slightly dull.