NINTH REFINEMENT

---Materials: a crafting knife, pages from sketchbook, a cutting mat, card board, white charcoal, a sponge, a paint brush, tracing paper, blue, white, black and red acrylic.

>My aim today is to use the transfer cello-tape technique instead of drawing the buildings. I will also be using a bunch of thread to create a fine, thin line in the background.

Firstly, I used the transfer technique and followed the same steps as the ones I used on my “cello-tape transfer technique” blog. When printing out the images I realized that they came in different sizes, for example the big building in the middle compared to the other small images. I was not able to control the sizes for each building as all the buildings were printed off from the same photograph. After adding my technique, I glued the transferred picture onto the abstract. For the big building, I added the abstract after sticking the transferred cello-tape. At the end of this stage I finally added the cardboard at the bottom of each building- inspired by Alexander Korzer-Robinson. Sticking the acetate onto the buildings was easy for me because all I had to do was put glue on the outline of the buildings and on the acetate. Overall, this piece was challenging for me as I had to cut the cardboard into little pieces and stack them together by gluing them one by one transforming it into a tower or a spring to firmly hold the cut-out buildings.

 

 

I really like how the buildings stand out unlike when I drew the buildings. Painting the abstract first onto the cut-out building before applying the transfer technique made the details of the buildings hard to see, however this shows how our memory is not fully clear in our mind.  Furthermore, I still liked the idea of drawing out buildings instead of printing them out. This is because when imagining an image in your my mind it is like drawing the image in your mind and so is not an exact copy of the original image creating this “false image” (from my mental imagery research). In my opinion, the building in the middle was a bit distracting and adding the abstract over the transfer cello-tape made my technique bigger, which I thought was less appealing. The reason it made my technique bigger is because the cello tape has a smoother texture therefore making my paint brush slip- this made my technique quite large. What I would do differently is add the acrylic onto the cut-out buildings before applying the transfer technique. I would also try printing out little images. Furthermore, Instead of concentrating on the transfer technique, I am going to concentrate on speed drawing.