15th of November

Afternoon fine people of the internet, its been awhile since my last post so alot to catch up on. Yesterday i had a fine tutorail with Ambrose.

Really good chat with Ambrose, he hadnt seen where i was going with it so it was a fresh set of eyes to look over my work, he really backed up Del's idea of going for the more abstract panel idea. Other than he did make some comments about he liked how much research was going on and its about time to start samling and get making on the piece.

 The following day i started off with a tutorail with Adrian, ive had alot of these and i thought it might get reptive him telling me to take it somewhere new but everytime he has given me useful points to look into. He liked the abstract idea but the one thing he latched onto was that i hadnt really worked on how to connect the outline bar to the center bar, so i was sent with my sketchbook to look into that.

This was my first sample of Wednesday morning, it was an idea Ambrose had, to using a ball tool to work dents into the steel then scroll it to make something similar to the fiddlehead ferns. Now as much as i like where this is going i think the fiddleheads are just no the avenue im taking, everytime i think about making them it just cries to me repition. 

This was a quick 5 minute sample to back up my arguement to Adrian about going this kind of piece.

These were 3 samples i did on texture, one aspect of this making that i keep tittering on the edge of is actually the texture and the growing feel to the steel. I used pretty simple tools aviable to me at the anvil like my cross pein and hammering a burnt bit of steel into the bar to see the impression. These needs alot more sampling before i can start making judgements on where i want to go.

 

I did a few of these samples with the wire after my talk with Ambrose, i just coudlnt get it to sharp points like i was after, i am thinking more with the steel and less with wire in the future, i spent an hour frustrated attacking wire. Bad times.

Well thats about it for catching up, got a pretty full weekend ahead of me, im finishing off the essay and doing a large maybe full scale drawing of my piece to show off at my assessment monday. Updates over the weekend on my productivy