Experiments with paints on A5 size papers-Exploratory Project.

Experiments on coloured papers.(22.03.14)

DAY 1.
This is really the day one of my Exploratory Project where I wanted to grasp ideas as they were coming along. I had made some important plans about what I wanted to try out for my exploratory and I had lots of ideas that I needed to put on paper. This is some of them...

 I wanted to work from intuitive paintings and remain non-representative

 

 

 I really like this small painting as I feel that this was what I wanted to do and I was enjoying accidental effects.

 

 

Other experiments..

 

 This painting is different from the others as I tried to shift from curvy lines to geometric squares. This is an interesting composition here that I would like to work more on as I feel that if I had switched to geometry I could have merged it with a more "curvy" style and reach out for midway between the rigid and the flowing lines. 

 

 This work is a consensus between what I feel to be playful mark-making(by felt pens) and I have merged it with bold paint strokes. At this point, I felt a possibility for exploration that I could work more on... 



This is another possibility from merging of linear drawings with paint and strokes. I like the result which are becoming closer to being suggestive..

 

In a sense, I can now understand the importance of colours and multiplicity that I strive for.. I want to explore on so many possibilities that I do not take time on simple things. I am having so many options that I feel overwhelmed and I move on to other ideas that I do not take time to assimilate and reflect on ideas...

Reflections:
At the end of the day, I made a review on what I had done and on the striking ideas that looked like they needed to be explored more.. The next day, I moved on to more elaborate works, on the same format...

DAY2. Further experiments with paint.(23.03.14)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

Reflections;

 

At the end of the day, I found out that I had created more overcrowded works which had a sense of being more complete also...I think I should reflect more on this idea on when the artwork is really called finished...

This is a reflection that I have added after "completing" my exploratory work:
All these experiments have mutated into fragments and merged to other experiments that I have gathered as an initial start for obtaining ideas. They no longer exist (apart from this blog page) as they had been cut into pieces and re-arranged into other compositions. In a sense, they have been decontextualized and they now live on in another context (this is another form of abstract,the element of time-the past and the present..)and this journey of breaking down and building up is becoming more and more like a letmotif... There is also intense exploration on the element of composition and space which I have done thorough research on for my essay on the contemporary context...
I think now the real question remains:when do I really call it a finished piece?? Is this the finished piece and am I fully satisfied with it?? What if I was to break it all off again and start all over again??..Interesting ideas for field work for OCA year two..