Developing my Final Body of work

Acrylic on Un-stretched Canvas 140 X 115 Cm

This week I have been developing just using paint on canvas. I have been following the same method of folding it up painting a circle and then unfolding it. I is now a more controlled method that I'm using which I am happier about but there are some elements that I can't control because I'm never sure exactly where the paint is going to go when I open it up. I have been using different colours and layering up the folds to create more interesting shapes.

Acrylic on Un-stretched canvas 140 X 95

I felt that this was working better than just a few of these shapes over the whole area. However I want to keep the uncontrolled element to it so I have been continuing with these shapes. I decided that I didn't want to bring back in the circles because they took the attention away from the shapes and I want the uncontrolled element to be the focus of my work. This is why I have decided to layer the shapes, but it didn't seem to all work together so I thought about introducing line into my work. I decided to do some artist research on Fritz Glarner who is inspired by Mondrian and uses line in a very similar way and to highlight key parts.

Set of three Initial experiments 40 X 30 Cm

It gave me an idea of controlling the areas that I don't like with the line and then linking them all together to create a path over the work. I when I introduced this it pulled all the work together and made it all work together as a hole rather than just the shapes.