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Alfons Schillings

Alfons Schillings spin art
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Mark Chadwick

Mark Chadwick oil and spin paintings
http://www.markchadwick.co.uk/

Tim Hemington

http://www.timhemington.co.uk/
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Spray Paint space art:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8xtk42D1s
March 2013 preview spray paint art secrets
Space art pastel green nebula

preparing for my final idea

Now i am ready to start thinking about my canvases that I want to make so now I need to collect my bed sheets that I will need to place over the frame. I have decided i want to make 2 canvases in total. I have decided how big they are going to be, they will be 125cm x 125cm. I will need to make sure my bed sheets are cotton. I have asked Andy the technician in the workshop if he could kindly help me put the frames together. Once I had my frames I could then attach my sheets to both of them. Using some stretching tools and a staple gun I stretched the sheets over the frames this would then give me two canvases to work on. I am going to use batik dyes to get that same effect as before, I am really excited to get started!

I have finally finished painting my canvases with batik dye. I used a small selection of batik dyes and some bleach, 2 big brushes and some water to complete my paintings. I am going to do both of my paintings in the same way.



 



Here is a close up of the painting you can see how vibrant it becomes on such a large scale it looks fantastic however when it starts to dry it will fade a little bit. I did also try adding some rock salt into it while it was wet. It could turn out really nice.


Next I am going to start making my stencils so that I can paint on some spaceships using PVA and that will be really interesting.

 

Using my model spaceships I am now going to use a projector to cast the shapes of the shadows they create onto a piece of card and then I can draw around the shadow and that will give me a stencil that I can cut out later on. I repeated this process until I had lots of different stencils to work with.

 

 

 

I can now cut out the shapes from the card and this will give me my stencils.

 

 

Model spaceships

To continue with my theme of space I wanted to start building some model space ships. Taking inspiration from my favourite science fiction shows and movies such as Star wars, Star Trek and Prometheus, I wanted to design my own spaceships. I looked on the internet at images of spaceships and I chose ones that I was familiar with and ones that i had not seen before.
Google images of spaceships
http://www.startrek.com/
http://www.startrek.com/galleries
http://starwars.com/
Prometheus film review


Using the images I had found on the internet I thought that I should collect some materials to work with from the workshop such as wood and mdf and use some scrap pieces that other students no longer needed and build them. I thought that this would make them more interesting and more random.

I did also cut some pieces to shape using the band saw.
So once I had found some interesting shapes to work with I started to build them straight away.                        

As you can see they are starting to take shape, ive have been putting them together using PVA glue and then afterwards I will sand off all the sharp edges using my sandpaper. I have finished one of them and when they are all finished I will prime them with emulsion so later I can paint them.

 

 

I have given them a thin coat of emulsion and leaving them to dry, then I will give them another coat so they have two coats of emulsion and they will be ready to go. I have decided to spin paint them using poster paints, I have chosen prussian blue, black and also I have combined some purple drawing ink. They have turned out really well, I believe they were successful. It was however difficult to cover the entire model with paint so there are a few white patches but I don't mind.

 

 



So now that they are dry and finished I'm having a look at what they look like against a colourful background. I have placed the ship on top of a canvas that I had made earlier in the project where i was experimenting with the batik dyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

I'm thinking about what to do with them now maybe placing them in front of a canvas like this one is the next stage. So now I need to decide what I need to make next. I also think that a larger canvas is definitely needed and then maybe I could hang them in some way.