AT3- Generative Drawing (Working)
Experiments:
The materials that I am using for this experiments are:
1: Grinded coffee with water
2: Baking powder with Glass Cleaner
3: Water colour with salt water
4: Water colour with sprayed alcohol
The first 6 columns I have used 3 techniques and the last 3 columns got another 3 more different techniques.
Row#1: Technique 01- using toothbrush to splash the coffee on to the substrates
Row#2: Technique 02- cup stamps with coffee
Row#3: Technique 03- Using Fork to stamps with coffee
Row#4: Technique 01- Repeat with baking powder and glass cleaner
Row#5: Technique 02- Repeat with baking powder and glass cleaner
Row#6: Technique 03- Repeat with baking powder and glass cleaner
Row#7: Technique 04- Alcohol sprayed on Water Colour
Row#8: Technique 05- Using Cling wraps smudge it with watercolour
Row#9: Technique 06- add droplets of watercolour on salt water
Materials
Substrate 01: 200 g/m2 paper (medium gloss)
Substrate 02: Yellow Coloured paper
Substrate 03: Paper Towel
The grounded coffee works really well on both 200 g/m2 paper (medium gloss) and Yellow coloured paper and they look good and can easily show their density.
Second materials created the most interesting part of their characteristic. They gave out the chemical reaction of baking powder within the glass cleaner and it's a cool way to show this in 3D as well.
The Third material mainly was red water colour with 3 different techniques. It's also interesting that those technique gives reaction toward the water coloured in a surprising way ans also it was easier draw it with water colour.
Further experiement, I still would like to experiment these three materials on to other 9 substrates.
Substrates
1. Baking paper 2. Black coloured paper 3. Makeup pad
The grounded coffeee looks very cool on baking paper and it clearly show the coffee grains kinda give our cool effects but what I like more among these three is the making up pad. like it how when the water got absorbed quickly and all the edges are getting a round red colour.
4.scrunched paper 5.Foil paper 6. Kids PVA Craft glue
Among these three substrates, there two of it that I find it intersting. Because the foils kinda give out landscape characteristic and the PVA glue worked really will with liquid. Once the water drip on to the glue surface it immediately creates a movements.
7 .Tap water 8. olive oil 9. Sanitiser alcohol
I personally think that only oil can creates such a interesting looking form as lava lamp. The rest kind does not seem to work out with the liquid substrates as the materials is also a liquid substance.
Overall , I will continue to uses makeup pad, foil and PVA glue as my substrates for the technique experiemental.
Techniques
Substrates: 1: Makeup pads Materials: Water colour (red)
2. PVA Glue
3. Foils
1. dropping 2. Dripping from the top 3. cross hatch
4. Tilting up and down 5.blowing 6 splashing
7. Blowing from the straw 8. using syringe from the corner 9. Rubbing
I have finalised that to use foil paper for my next experiment of apparatus because foil shows more characteristic from the the wrinkles and the water colour. However, I want to experiment with material that can create a 3 dimension form such a candles dripping on the foil.
-Mid-Review-
''Wax and Foils''
Series:
For my apparatus experiment is by using candle as my source of material and using foil paper as my context for this experiment.
Material and Tool:
The setups:
For my setups, I have constructed using a skirting board as a stand for candles and I tie my candle to the stand by using a steel tie wire to hold the candle in a position that I wanted and then I’ve built a paper holder to let the paper tilted and easy to let the candle melted on to the paper. The way it works, first I tie my candle to the steel wire and place the foil paper on the paper holder and lastly light up the candle and start record it.
Iterations:
This drawing of the way the candle wax melt on to the wrinkles foil paper shows the characteristics of the landscape looking from the above. And how the overlapping melted wax is very interesting.
Moreover, the way I arranged them in ta grid like this because I wanted to achieve how candle melted with in times. I have timed that the total amount of time of the candle is approximately 17 minutes, but I decided to stopped recording after 15 mins. First, I timed when it melts within 1 min, then 5 mins, then 10 mins and 15 mins. I have also tested with the numbers of layers from 1 layer to 5 layers to see how the numbers of paper changes. Unfortunately, it did not turn out how I expected. Moreover, I have also created the patterns on each iteration to shows what would it be like to for the wax melted on this pattern.
Reference images:
First attempt:
Failed
I have failed my first attempt because the candle that I bought was somehow burning aggressively and causing to burn the whole paper. Then I switched to use different candles and work the rest from it.
The rest of the experiments:
Timelapse video:
After:
This is the results after I peel it off the foil. Its impossible to peel it without breaking waxes.
Interesting part:
However, this makes it look very uncomfortable due to the colour of the candle that I've use. What to improve is that I need to change my subtrates from foil to water and use different colour of candle.
Final Deliverables
-Wax Lava-
Final series:
Final series outcomes that includes 9 images. I have used photoshop to edit out my images to show the density and intensity of the curves of the wax that was floating on the water.
Precedents:
The reason why I named this project Wax Lava it is because the way the wax drips into the water has created the characteristic of Dried Lava Flow which is very interesting that a candle wax can ressemble the natural element of volcano.
Materials System:
For the Material System Specification-
Materials: Candles
Substrates: water
Technique: Dripping
Apparatus: skirting board, steel wire, PVA glue lighter and container.
System Drawing:
Slow motion video of how the system works.
This is system drawing the drawing is in scale of 1:20 in both axonometric and plan view- the setup of the material system to help producing the drawing of burning candles and how it control the wax from the burning candles.
Methods Drawing:
The process of setting up the system: showing a step by step on how to build the apparatus to generate the drawing.
Change Drawing:
The change drawing- Each candles take approximately 19 mintues to melt and I decide to recorded after 17 mintues. First changing is starts with 1 minutes into melting then 5 mintues, 9 mintues, 13 mintues and 17 mintues. the dashline is the candle and the candles are getting shorter and shorter as the candle’s melting point has stopped after each 4 mins.
Once the candle burn it will always dripping down in the same direction and when it gets shorten the drip will drop in different direction and distance from the candles. That’s why I include the candles in this drawing. When the wax drips it overlap each other that creates all those curves. Moreover, when the wax is heavy it allows the water to move which is why you can see some of them are start to change the angle because some of the part get too heavy when the next drip hits, the water push it to the side that’s why existed to the curve and some of them are looking straight it’s because its lighter compare to the other. In addtion, the amount of wax create a unique curve and as you can see that some of them have smooth edges, some are rough and some are weird edges as well.
So, overall I find this project is very interesting and the outcome reminds me of the characteristic of dried lava flow so I can say that the wax acted as the lava of the volcano.
THANK YOU
-End-
-Thank you Rainy-
