Over the summer I had the idea to create almost this childlike texture book filled with textural experiements as I want to in my A2 coursework create the feeling of different emotions through texture and I decided that I could do this small sized sketchbook and take it out to a forest sometime in the summer and start a few experiments so that straight from the get-go of A2 I could include texture into all my work, a medium that I am most comfortable in, and I decided to make the cover look very old and worn since this sketchbook for me is just covering old group and remembering how to get loads of interesting textures very fast and to find out what textures and materials work with what and if they work at all.
This first page of this texture sketchbook is a simple rubbing of the page across the floor to create movement and draw a very abstract landscape with some dead flowers found from the forest and collage them together to create an unusual shape which reminds me of trees and further reminds me of the location that this piece of art was done in, in the middle of a wood.
This piece again has a background of the page being rubbed against the grass and then some leaves found from the floor where I had rubbed the book collaged on top of these marks which again makes it looks like a landscape but this experiment is to collage using not only larger objects but a different texture with these leaves being delicate and different colours this piece also relates to the observational drawings I was doing at the time, and to preserve the colour of the leaves I covered the page in glue.
This page is a colour experiment as I found some berries around the wood and I wanted to see how well they were for applying colour onto paper and when I did this it didn't apply much colour onto the paper, I then fixed this by pouring glue onto the paper not only to stick the mushed berries to the page but also to make the colour seep from them and spread it about the page. This worked well however is very impractical and would take to much time to add colour to work but I decided to keep it to show that I have tried it and considered it an option.
This piece is a collage of dried emulsion that had been drying for about 10 weeks before I found it and I decided to fish it out of the pot and use the bits I collected to create a mix between a collage and a sculpture and when I created this piece I thought to myself that it looked like a brain and that this could relate into my theme and I decided to add black ink to it not only to add definition to the 3Dness that the piece has but also so that it seemed like something taking a brain over similar to how anxiety feels especially when you have a panic attack.
This piece is covering ground from last year with my cling film technique used throughout my exam however with this piece instead of doing 1 layer of cling film I decided to do 3 to have layers and layers of texture to almost create a feeling of being overwhelmed similar to how you feel when you have an anxiety attack and to me I love this method of texture as it is fast and is always reliable to create interesting textures and by doing this 3 times on one page created a very impasto texture and to me in essence appears to look like skin.
This piece is where I decided to take my idea of melting cling film from last year and try it with different materials to see what effects they'd garner me and this one is with photo/blueprint paper which when unmelted is translucent and doesn't hold many materials well. However when burnt it crinkles up and resembles baking parchment but it melts so fast and creates such unusual and translucent textures which I definitely would like to explore more later on in the year.
This experiment is done using acetape and is transparent and I think would be interesting to use in combination with my painting artist Machowski to add further texture to already textured painting and see what effect that'd have, when melted it has the same effect as photo/blueprint paper however unlike that rather than trying to curl up acetape just splits and bubbles and creates more skin like texture when melted.
This piece is created using a really thick layer of glue and melting it with it being similar to acetape in it being transparent however burns much easier and raises in massive bubbles. The downside to glue is it has to be applied directly to the paper meaning that paint can mixed in with it when being burned and ruin the transparent effect it gets, however this might also be a plus and maybe something I should explore in more detail later in the year when I get a chance.
This piece is created using a plastic bag that has been melted and melted into the paper itself this again creates an interesting effect but the downside is that due to most plastic bags being coloured means that you'd have to find particular bags and colours on bags to create pieces which would be too time consuming, however again I decided to keep this piece in to show that I have attempted it and thought about it. This piece also relates to the collection of photos I took for the 'Teenage Years Through the Mind of the Depressed' series of photographs.
The final piece in my texture sketchbook is a combination of multiple techniques that gain my favourite looks combined together to see how they look together so this piece is created with acetate, cling film and glue all melted into each other and I really like this piece, I love how subtle it is and the only real colour in this piece is from the actual burning of the paper itself and I feel that this is an all round good way to end my first experiments book and trying out texture so that when I get back into the studio after summer I can jump straight into more complicated things and take my art into very abstract areas and add texture to the early things in the year such as drawing.
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