Wow.

I was clearing my room out yesterday and I came across my rusting from my previous topic of interest and had noticed it had rusted further. I decided to take some further pictures of it and was surprised by the results. Some of the pictures look stunning. I LOVE the textural qualities to them.A perfect example of trusting the process. I like the way these pieces could not be recreated exactly again as it would never rust quite the same again.


























After studying the work of Crawford, I decided to take this work and my experimentation with rusting and analyse it.

I liked the way the patterns created could not be recreated in the same way again.

According to Barnes (2002)
"To produce work which looks just like its neighbour confirms children in the belief that there is a right way to do art" (Barnes, 2002, p6)

Last year i had a really experimental year with my art. Koster (2009) says that previous experience is an influence on children's art and it was on mine too. It was an activity that allowed me to explore and experiment with different ways of carrying out a process.

The fact that I experimented with different lace, amounts of water and locations, I believe supports the theory of E.P Torrance (1970)"Creativity is an ability to see a problem, form an idea to solve it and share the results" (E. P Torrence (1970) in Koster, (2009)

References
Barnes R (2002) Teaching art to Young Children 4 - 9. Second Edition. Routledge - Falmer. Oxon
Koster, J. B (2009) Growing artists 4th edition. Teaching the arts to Young Children. Cengage Learning. Delmar.

Liz Plummer

I have recently encountered a textile artist called Liz Plummer who, of all the many things she has experimented with,one of these was rust. She is most well known for her quilts.

She wraps fabric around rusty objects and waits for the rust to transfer.

It is something i would like to explore further, and perhaps get some rusty objects and experiment with as i think the final effect is quite striking.


Rust on silk.



Close up.



One of the tools Liz uses to aid her rusting.

Rust/lace/steel

So I have decided to experiment with rust at the moment and see where it takes me. My main focus for last years art was process art and I suppose this ties in nicely.

I went to B&Q and brought some sheets of steel, with the hope of overlaying some lace effect material (thank you New Look tights)over the top and encouraging the metal to go rusty (with the help of some salty water)I want the pattern to formed on the metal but I guess we shall see what happens.

I could also relate this process to school and learning as how much water is sprayed, different locations of the metal, different metals... could be experimented with. There are numerous possibilities.

It is also important that the metal is not moved from position whilst it is rusting as the lace (I would imagine) needs to remain torte in order for a pattern to appear. Therefoe I sewed one side of the lace to the other roughly to keep it rigid.


Here is the front view of the experimental piece.