A test from this week
Thinking about the aesthetic of these images and the idea of different colours indicating different materials.
Sean Kerr suggested last Thursday that I try to think more about using materials deliberately + consciously, selecting materials that are cohesive with the ideas being presented. The week before Jon Bywater reminded me that this is a material investigation, not just a conceptual one. This small sketch (about 20cm high) is a test in response to this advice.
Ellen Porch told me in 2nd year painting that when working with multiple types of paint media you can layer acrylic over watercolours, and oils over acrylic, but they won't work in any other order. (the paper itself is the binder for watercolours, which wouldn't be able to go on top of anything else; oils would rot the paper without another layer in between, so the acrylic, which is non-organic and won't rot the paper, works as a ground.) So using my X-rays as reference I layered some vegetables up, starting with watercolours (in orange - the colour which signifies natural and organic materials in customs x-rays) then acrylic (green - which signifies plastic) and oil (blue - signifies heavy/dense materials)
