Material Test
Wood stain and PVA glue, Wood stain, PVA Glue and acrylic paint, acrylic pain and Gold ink, Gold ink, PVA glue and gold ink, coffee, turmeric, and blue food colouring. Tests on paper using a variety of methods.
Some close ups of material testing. I really liked mixing mediums and how the medium sits on the page over 2d markings. The Wood stain and the glue had an interesting effect where the glue seemed to suck in the stain, and with the gold ink there was an almost opposite effect where the gold droplets formed small craters.
Substrate Tests
I used Paper, clear plastic, Styrofoam and Wooden slats as substrates for density tests with chosen materials. I found the Styrofoam and wooden slats in a council clean up. I used wood stain, blue acrylic paint, PVA glue, and golden ink from a marker, mixing the mediums and seeing the results. I ended up pouring wood stain into the PVA glue and it looks like purple paint.
I used a variety of techniques for marking the materials on the substrates and tried to keep these techniques consistent along each Iteration. The spray effect was produced by flicking the end of a paint brush dipped in ink or paint. The more flicks, the denser the spray. The circle-like iterations were made by dipping the bottom of a small round bottle into a material and pressing it down on the substrate. Other iterations were made by dripping. And another by paint brush.
Substrate; Paper
Substrate; Wooden slats
Substrate; Styrofoam
Substrate; Clear plastic
Secondary Material and Substrate tests. Experimenting with apparatus. PVA, constructive adhesive, all-purpose super glue, and clear epoxy adhesive.
First Apparatus test
Aim: To use gravity and the reaction of the two part material to replicate a frozen pour or frozen drips.
Second Apparatus Tests: Tying one end of clear nylon string to the bottom of the milk crate, I pulled the string through the top. I then poked a hole in the bottom of a tea light candle aluminium casing, pulled the string through and tied it at the end. I flipped the casing over and poured epoxy glue into it mixing it with pen ink. After waiting for it the epoxy to start reacting I turned the casing on its side and let the epoxy slowly drip down the string, forming a frozen pour effect.
Time-lapse videos of final drawings
Change Drawings of 17 min epoxy pour.
