Gesso Experiments...

After discussing my ideas and next moves with Rachel she suggested trying Gesso and experiment with creating marks using this. To cover over some other materials previously I was using just white paint, materials that sucked up the paint for example hand made papers the white paint couldn't be scratched off, so this was a worry with using Gesso and it seemed similiar to paint. After creating 12 varieties of samples the same problem with the material sucking up the paint reappeared, however the samples that didn't suck the Gesso up turned out really well. The materials that stood out to me the most was the transparent foil and the gold ribbon, the scratches revealed the vibrant colours underneath and the scratches created mark makings that stood out really well because of the contrast in the colour. I would like to try these experiments on a larger scale, just to see if the detail still exists.

 Gold Ribbon

 Red Transparent Foil

 Thin Ply Wood

Orange Cellophane