A week or two ago I painted with stick and ink onto acetates in the design of the brain. Once I have finished with my wire drawings I want to create multiple sheets of the acetate pattern and place them all on a window. My tutor said it would be possible for me to put them on one of the college main window panels, I think this will look really cool once it's done, like a stained glass window. I bought 30 acetate sheets but they're the smudge resistant ones and aren't fully see through so I'll see how it goes.

Ceramics

This week I attended the ceramics workshop. I really enjoyed working with clay. My tutor Kieran had suggested awhile back that I experiment with x rays through clay, by making holes and marks through a lump of clay and then slicing it up to show the patterns of movement. I made a small prototype just to see how it would turn out. I was pretty pleased with it, its very rough and quite small, so next week I want to go back to the ceramics department and create the same idea but on a larger scale and more refined. Kieran mentioned that he would be giving a talk on glazing also. So I look forward to moving on with this ceramics idea of movement through the brain.

Unfortunately I broke my camera on Halloween so I have no photos to upload for the moment, but in a week or so I should be able to sort that out. So since I've updated last I continued on with the scans and MRI and how I felt movement and motion was conveyed through these scans. The acetate box I made was just a rough draft, the wooden frame is quite crude and the acetates are quite opaque. So moving forward with this I made substituted the acetates for wire drawings, this week I have been making wire drawings of the head and brain that when they are put together show a 3-d head, of sorts. I'm still getting used to using wire so its a little messy at the moment. Ill update photos later.

          


Back to the idea of conveying movement through the brain by layering, like X-rays and MRI's.
 I found an artist called Angela Palmer who etched markings onto sheets of glass and when they were put together as a block it formed a 3d image. She also got this idea from MRI's and X-rays.

Link to Angela Palmer's gallery:

http://www.angelaspalmer.com/nggallery/page-577/album-2/gallery-3/




I liked the idea of the movement being shown by layering and scribbles. If you follow these scribbles and markings it brings you through the path of movement in the brain/body.

  For a few days, i made observational drawings of people and objects around me, by layering up markings and lines to build up the image.


 I went to the materials room and asked one of the technicians if it was possible to get a box made out of 22cm x 30cm small spars.

 Once I had that I began my observational drawings on sheets of acetate using ink with a stick. I made about ten sheets of mark making, which when layered up together form a 3d image.

I liked this concept and now that I know how it turns out once layered together I would like to continue with it and perfect the mark makings and the drawings themselves.

 I am thinking of getting a bigger box and using A3 acetates and creating a much more detailed drawing. 

Brain matter

I really like using ink with a stick, In my previous post I inked on a large sheet of wrapping paper and I really liked how it turned out. I did the same but on a smaller scale on a sheet of acetate.

 Then I tried marbelling ink on acetate sheets, two days later they're still a little damp so the photos aren't very good but hopefully once they're fully dry I can place the Indian inked acetate over the marbelled acetates.

Brain texture

My own MRI's

 

 I dropped just a little in and then blew on it so it spread out and the colour stretched.

 I cut these sheets of marbelled ink out into shapes of the brain.

 Then I photocopied them onto acetate sheets with black behind them to create my own MRI scans.