The next idea I have for my work is to create a mural in my space in the studio at university. I look to fill the whole walls with paint and colour, like I did for ‘Transcend the Cube’ (2021) but on a much larger scale.
Initially this was all the planning I did as my work is spontaneous and usually mostly unplanned. I went into the space with all my materials that I owned so I could be influenced by them alone. I firstly went with a grey pastel and started moving my body around the space making marks on the walls as I moved. These initial marks would be the baseline for the direction of movement of the next layer of watercolour paint to sit on. I moved on to making larger marks using chalk on a stick as an extension of my body in the space.
27/05/2021 – This was of working was hugely successful. I would definitely start a work like this again. I saw repeating patterns of grey line in the space which I followed with colour, tracing the movement of my body with paint and chalk initially. I then used scrunched up paper on the coloured pastel layer to make a depth of background colour in some areas which I found to be effective.
