Experimenting

After visiting Wellington Mill arts fair over the weekend, this inspired me to create a large wall piece after seeing some artists work involving spray paint. I wanted to explore working on a much larger scale than usual, so using some masking tape I begun to section of the wall with simple geometric shapes. I created the design free hand but took some inspiration from the photograph below. This was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be as I found it tricky to keep the tape stuck to the wall. When I had finished creating the design I noticed that the tape showed up really well in the uv light. And also captured the neon threads from the ceiling. I didn’t want to go too over board with colours so I tried to keep them quite basic. I also experimented around with shading of the colours, instead of just using block tones, and finished it off with a few metallic sections to blend it all together. Once I had fully covered the whole wall, I wasn’t too sure on how well it was going to work as it was hard to tell, but once I started to peel of the masking tape the wall piece started to come together really well. I was so pleased with the outcome and was definitely worth the 6hrs it had taken!