Degree Show Prep
For my degree show im making 3 circles out of MDF, as any circle canvases bought online are expensive and not big enough, i also thought 3 is a good number because they would fit well in the wall space i have and the composition would be ok visually.
With a little help from the technician, I cut my circles out of MDF boards. I originally was going to stretch canvas over them but there were a few problems in the way of that and I needed to start work on them as soon as possible, so I decided to work on the bare board, I primed the boards with PVA and started working on them.
I had a huge problem, my circles began to bow, this hindered everything because the time I had before they needed to be done was now being taken up on trying to fix the bowing. I did not realise I had to prime the back as well as no one suggested it to me and I have never worked on board before.
After a day or so and a lot of hard work I managed to reverse most of the bowing. But this changed how I worked on the boards, because they obviously bowed because i use a tremendous amount of water in my process. I continued with my original ideas but i was much more careful and only using as much water as I needed.
