Thursday 29 March and Tuesday 17 April

Thursday 29 March

On Thursday I planned to get the wallpaper and newspaper behind the last two A3 photographs so that I was ready to move onto the next stage which is was to be painting the board black. Doing this took shorter time than what I anticipated and so I began to add line to the newspaper using blue and orange biro. I was inspired by Tom Phillips to directly incorporate to add another element of art that in this case, is minimalistic. I did this in my mock final outcome but used different marks, both straight and curved. I decided to use only curved line on the newspaper so that there is a harmony between the background and the circle prints that I am going to do in the foreground. Even though this harmony is very subtle, it helps enough to make the composition not feel disjointed upon completion - as I found out when carrying out the mock final outcome.
The first coat of the black wood paint dried well and even though the coverage is good, I want to add another to just be sure that when the light catches it, that there are no translucent spots.

Tuesday 17 April

In the hour that I had, I only managed to get another layer of black paint onto the board. Although this seems like it took a long time to do this, I did go round the edges with a small brush and so this was quite time consuming.