I began by working on a slightly larger scale than the series of experiments in my sketchbook that were influenced by the techniques, colours and materials used by a veriety of my focus artists and other influences such as modern war games and war propaganda.
By working on canvas I encountered a few issues such as the spray from spray paint on the white background that becomes unintentional and can easily 'overcrowd' the piece.
To correct this I went back over areas of the canvas with white emultion to counteract this effect, however there were areas of the background that were effective and added another aspect to this work.
To progress further to the scale and size of the final outcome that I would like to complete I increased the size further, working on the wall to reduce how much I am limited by what I am presenting my work on as background.
However by working with a single model like in my sketchbook on this scale it meant that the piece lost it's effectiveness due to the same sized texures and materials that I used. I struggled to fill the space and also because the wires holes and texture was still scaled to the same size as it was on the smaller sketchbook scale. To try and improve/refine this piece I cut larger holes, and worked with larger textures and materials - however it still wasn't to the effectiveness as the sketchbook and canvas experiments.
Because of this I have changed my final outcome plan slightly, changing to multiple figures of wire and texture, grouping together to make an overall final figure of an explosion, each presenting as a piece of shrapnel, similar to an explosion of a bomb. They each consist of the usual unorthodox of materials that this series of experiments has consisted of, action figures, pages from war poems and war accounts and also melted war posters of propaganda across the multitude of wars and conflicts across the years.
