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.