Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Material Exploration (Gravity)

 
 
For this work I decided to use  a black background along with the elements of fire and gravity to help me create this work. For this piece I lit three candles  and let them drom to the paper, as I lit the candles one by one, the wax started to later over eachother as it fell down the paper creating this water effect, which was caused by gravity.
 

For this work I took a canvas and glued a packet of Crayola Crayons in color order to the top of the canvas. Than I used a hairdryer to heat up and melt the wax, causing gravity to force the wax to fall down the canvas.


For this piece I lit a Red candle in this old liquor bottles, and let gravity and the element of fire melt the wax down and around the bottle creating this crazy layering around the top of the bottle.


For this work I poured yellow hand soap and blue laundry detergent on a sheet of bubble wrap, and than as I picked it up the colors started to run down the plastic. The use of gravity gives this picture the sence of motion.


For this work I decided to do something different and hold the burning candle in the same sopt, thus causing the burning wax to build up and create these long gravity effects.


For this work I used a white background to see how different the contrast was between layering the drips from three candles. I did the same process as I did for the first gravity piece.I just used gravity to create the effect of faling watter on a page using wax as the medium.
 

For this piece which actually hangs on the wall. I started by glueing a bunch of green yarn together in a ball. Than I took a candle and let the hot wax drip on the ball of yarn until it was covered  and you could see the free forms that it created using gravity.
 

This is actually one of my favorit pieces, For this piece I took a candle and let it drip and run doen this plastic transparent bag. Than I hung it on the wall over a pink fabric tapistry  creating this transparent ripple effect.

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