Larger Scale

This is the burning on a larger scale. I dropped watered ink down a large roll of paper that was suspended from a wire and burnt into the paper from both sides to get different affects and textures of the burning.

Burning Experiments

Throughout these experiments I used watercolour paper and the technique of burning into it. I used watercolour paper because the burning affect was more effective on this type of paper. I chose to burn it because it fits my concept of broken, delicate, fragile and a falling to pieces state. I also added wax to one test piece to see if that would suit my concept better. From doing this I think it's better without the wax because adding the wax eliminates the delicate/ fragile affect I was aiming to achieve. Once I had tested these out, I developed this into drawing the microscoped tears of a human into the watercolour paper with the hot pen.

Experiments with plaster

For these experiments I chose to use plaster because it is easily breakable and crackable. For these I wrapped polystyrene balls in cling film and dipped them half way in the plaster. After they had dried I took the polystyrene balls and cling film out, if they wouldn't come out because I dipped them in slightly too much over half way I used the heat gun to melt them out. They were very successful and fit my concept well. I then experimented with light and they produced amazing effects due to different thicknesses across the plaster.

Experiments with plastic sheets

With plastic sheets I scored them with a craft knife and then molded them with a heat gun into a soft, flowing shape. I then burnt the shapes of microscoped tears into them using the burning tool. After that I explored what kind of shadow they produced. I am very impressed with the shadows they produced but I think these shadows could possibly be a bit to strong and bold so wouldn't fit my concept.

Shadows

After experimenting with porcelain and burning into a variety of papers, this lead to combining them together. By using the burnt paper that was influenced by the miscrosoped teardrops and the broken pieces of porcelain, it produced a completely different piece that worked very well. Turning the lights off and shining a torch onto the piece, then holding each burnt piece of paper produced amazing shadows.