I want to use natural materials on it, like horse poo, hair, haylage, chalk, soil, ash etc and what I've found so far with my experimentation is that some of the materials are best applied in large quantities to deliver my desired effect. Also the materials like poo and hair are hard to apply to smaller areas, I found on an A3 sheet of paper hair stuck on often looked like bits of hair but hopefully what I'm aiming for is for my piece to look like hair and poo when closely examined but really for it to be viewed from a distance. Where if you step back and take in the entire canvas I want the materials to become part of horse and not just as it appears on paper as stuck on chunks of hair.
I need to just practice on hessian to check what works and doesn't especially with clay as I've found on paper it always dries and crumbles off.
Richard Long
I've also been looking an artist very similar to Andy Goldsworthy in that some of his work is made using natural materials in the landscape and disappears back into the landscape over time. He's interested in the art of mobility and freeness, using only raw materials and his human scale.
He has gone on long walks, removing stones from his pathway or the opposite by placing stones one after the other in long lines.
What originally drew me to this artist was one of his pieces where he has a large wheel like circle of hand prints much like Native Indian art. The hand print is repeated over and over in a spiral type circle and even reminded me of war paint.
I'd like to try and work hand prints into my work, just faintly into the background of the hessian. To show some of the original Indian art work ideas leading up to the piece and inspiring it. I also like the idea of linking human and animal on a spiritual level between the materials and nature.
Richard Long
I've also been looking an artist very similar to Andy Goldsworthy in that some of his work is made using natural materials in the landscape and disappears back into the landscape over time. He's interested in the art of mobility and freeness, using only raw materials and his human scale.
He has gone on long walks, removing stones from his pathway or the opposite by placing stones one after the other in long lines.
What originally drew me to this artist was one of his pieces where he has a large wheel like circle of hand prints much like Native Indian art. The hand print is repeated over and over in a spiral type circle and even reminded me of war paint.
I'd like to try and work hand prints into my work, just faintly into the background of the hessian. To show some of the original Indian art work ideas leading up to the piece and inspiring it. I also like the idea of linking human and animal on a spiritual level between the materials and nature.
