Texture and Colour

One Coat Sculpture

As part of my experimentation, I had decided to create a piece that used One Coat plaster, which I am not all that familiar working with. Once I had got the thinkness I had wanted, I set about trying to build up a sculpture. One Coat is a lot heavier than I anticipated, so it was very difficult to build up the sculpture while the base wasn't set. Not only that, but it is extremely 'sticky' to the point that it puled off the gloves I was wearing for safety precautions. rather than attempt to pull them out of the sculpture, I just decided to make them part of it, along with the scrim and clingfilm that had also became part of the sculpture.

Once it was dry, I was unsure what to do with it. I didn't want to leave it as it was because it would have been a waste, so instead, I made the decision to apply paint on it using a similar method to how I would apply ink to wet paper.
I used white emulsion as a base for the colours I would add, and rather than watering down paint colours (from experience I know that it is inconsistent in its pigmentation) I mixed more white emulsion with different colours of ink. I watered down the emulsion slighly before adding the ink so that it would be more runny beforehand. Mixing the ink with the emulsion meant that the emulsion became even thinner, and the inks became more pastel in colour.

As I poured the ink and emulsion mix over the white paint, it began to blend and mix with the other colours I was adding, and would run in certain places more than others because of the shape of the sculpture.

I liked making this sculpture because there was a lack of control even when I was putting the mix in specific places to fill up some of the blank spaces, as the paint mix would still only run where there were dips in the sculpture. 

I also started to add pure ink to the sculpture, which added more pigmentation and would blend in with the other paints. 

Unfortunately, when the sculpture had dried, the texture created by the colour had vanished, as ll the colours had blended together and lost its dimension in most parts

Intrestingly, however, when I pullled the sculpture off of the clingfilm I had set it on, the paint had stuck to it and created small paint chips which were interesting to look at.