As I started to become more confident with spray painting, especially with way I had been applying paint, I decided to move onto using various colours and starting to apply two tonal colours together. I decided on using two neon colours because I feel it relates well to the rave scene within Grime culture. In addition to this, I love the bright and vibrate colours produced by these colours. I feel they work really well with the flowers and create an exuberant print. Whilst, I did still struggle with creating a neat finish on the pieces, I like how these piece have turned out. The large scale of them is defiantly something I would like to play around with potentially making some smaller pieces and combining them together. Whilst I feel spray painting is working out very well, Wiley uses paint to create most of his floral designs and I feel it would be ignorant to ignore this and not experiment with paint, therefore I am taking a short break from this sketchbook to experiments with using paint to create floral prints. 

I decided to create my stencil out of something more durable, therefore I used card. It was extremely difficult to cut out, and took me a long time, around two hours as I found it extremely hard to cut out the petal shapes. I did initially find it hard to spread an even layer of paint within the piece, therefore a lot of faded marks were left. However, I feel the stencil was extremely effect, I really like they way the strong individual layers of the petals built up within the piece, I feel the bold colours holds it's own. One thing I would improve within this piece, is to maybe look at adding a background, potentially relating it to the marks I had been making throughout my previous sketchbooks. 

After dabbling with making graffiti marks within my sketchbook, I decided to dedicate a sketchbook to it because it was something I really wanted to start developing. I began making marks, within the gold spray paint I had bought. I don't feel this went well, I feel I am not skilled enough, or have developed my spray painting technique enough to not use stencils. In addition to this, I wanted to trail out stencils. I do not feel this piece is completely unsuccessful, it has shown me how difficult spray painting is and how much I need to develop my skills. To conclude, I will continue with spray painting, as I love the texture and references I can make with using this medium, and will trial out making stencils. 

All three of these studies consists of the wax leaking through into the next page and experimenting with the marks created by it, and how I could manipulate the marks to create more tones and line. I feel all three of these pieces went well, they all catch my eye, but I partly think this is because of the red colour  used, something which I love and will always be drawn towards. I feel painting with the lining of the wax works well with the paint, especially with the mark making aspect of the piece. Therefore I will continue to make these marks, but starting to experiment with incorporating various mediums and materials into the pieces. 

Finally branching out into using dark tones throughout the background of this piece, led me to using a smaller amount of wax. However, I do really like how this piece turned out, I like the way the red stands out against the black tones and is completely softened by the white tones. There is a fault within this piece in my in opinion, the way I have made marks within the background, in the dark tone, is completely different to how I normally make marks. They are rigid and thick, completely opposite to the types of marks I normally like to make, which are softer to an extent, and flow more. Therefore I like this piece to an extent, I would definitely call it a successful experiment, due to black tones turned out well and being something I would like to develop. In addition to that, finding out the wax works well against the dark background which also led me to thinking of what other colours and tones would work well. 

Whilst there is no tone at all within this piece, I do like the way the wax has seeped through onto this page. It create a greasy texture and whilst it sounds vile, it was actually nice to paint onto, therefore I will defiantly be looking at using this to my advantage within further experiments. 

Since my previous piece had such little to give in the background, I decided to create a darker background this time. I did not completely go into black tones, instead just create more a grey coloured tones. I do not know why I did this. It was a bad decision. Again, I feel the wax works really well this piece, I decided to melt within the centre of the page and this is because I feel the wax in the centre of the piece creates a powerful statement in my opinion. You go through my sketchbook and this is definitely  the piece which stands out the most. I feel this comes down to two factors, the first being the colour, I feel red is such a powerful colour and it always makes it's way into my work. The second being the texture and form, because it literally melted onto the page, it's dried and stuck in that position which I feel creates a flow through the piece. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece has turned out, however I would like to start making a stronger impact on the background of the page, which will either support or draw attention away from the wax, but I'm excited to find out. 

After experimenting with wax using spray paint I decided to move onto using it with normal paint. I felt it was important to move on from using spray paint as I want to create a sketchbook dedicating experiments to it, as I feel it is such an influential part of my art work, in addition to this I feel I can relate it to my artists extremely well. I started this piece by creating various marks using paint, creating different tones. I then dripped red wax onto the piece from contrasting angles. I felt this worked well but I do not think this piece works well as a whole. The colours within the background are so faded and washed out, they bring nothing to the piece, it may as well not have been there. However, I am happy with the wax and will continue to experiment with it in my work. 

I found this lining paper and instantly knew I wanted to use it within my work. So, I did. I started by adding burn marks to this piece, and melting certain areas of it. Whilst I like how these turned out, I disliked the large dark burnt holes with the piece, I feel it really draws away from the delicate yet destructive parts. In addition to this, the spray paint hardly shows up on this piece, therefore I will have to go back and refine this piece, making sure I either spray closer to there page, 

therefore creating thicker lines, or using a different colour. To conclude, I like how this piece turned out to an extent, I feel there are so many negatives and improvements to be made before I can look at this piece in a positive light. 

For this piece, I used a white cloth material and burnt it delicately around the edges before placing it down onto the page. I then added spray paint upon the top, creating different marks, and again using the same method of pulling the can closer and further aways whilst continuously making marks. Something which I would definitely like to try, would be to try continuous drawings with the spray paint but I might have to change the scale of the piece due to the paint going into thick lines and connecting together. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece has turned out, I feel the elegant and fragile white cloth then burnt and painting upon works well. 

The next texture I decided to use was this foamy pink type of material, in which I  actually found discarded on my street. I couldn't not pick it up and take it home, therefore when I got home, I immediately stuck it down into my sketchbook, The first thing I wanted to try way to melt various parts of it, however I only had matches which I the main reason why I do not like this and why I will be going back to refine it. I feel the spray paint works really well against the pink texture materials alone, the material, often used for packing and wrapping items to keep safe, gives a engaging texture in which the spray paint stuck strikingly well to. I will absolutely be using this material again, but I think I will just use it by itself and not stick it down, maybe sew it into my sketchbook instead. However, I do have to return to the bad points within this, I really dislike the holes throughout the piece, I feel they ruin it, I would like to go back ad refine the piece, preferably using the heat gun to melt the material more, so it looks less like its been stuck down into my book by a five year old. 

Continuing with spray paint, I began spray painting cling film I had stuck down and melted. I went back to use cling film due to only lightly spray painting on it earlier therefore, I wanted to re-create the texture and try using heavier amounts of spray paint instead. To conclude, I feel this experiment worked well, I do not feel this is anything particularly special about this experiment which is why I have so little to say about it. 

Wax something I have never fully worked with, I always used it lightly around my work. I do not know the reason behind me doing this, but I felt it would work well with spray paint. I started by melting wax and dripping, and marking it all over the page. I then started to spray paint the piece, making various marks and trailing out holding the spray paint can closer and further away from me. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece has turned out, I feel the light tones of the sliver spray paint reflect really finely yet beautiful off the wax drips, highlighting individual creases and marks. 

Moving on with my work, I began to hold the spray paint closer to the page, making marks thicker which also meant I had to work faster. This is something I enjoyed doing. The thing I do think that is missing from this piece is some sort of texture. I find it very blank, just sliver on a white page, therefore I may go back and refine it further. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece has turned out, I feel it works well and I can develop my experiments further by looking at a variety of different materials related to ideas around my theme.

Returning to use of cling film I spread it across the page, leaving room for a lot of glue underneath the piece then applying heat closely to the page. This, as I have mentioned in previous posts, led onto spray painting. Spray painting to me, is the almost definition of street art. It allows people to freely express themselves in a completely different way to how society as culture expects you express yourself. This highly interested me, it relates very well to the culture of Grime, at most of the Grime raves, and they way the culture is presented, there will often be a strong amount of graffiti within the background. This also lead me to thinking about colours, the use colours within spray paint are something which highly appeal to me, most places contain dark, deep colours, whereas I would like to look at using bright, intrusive colours. In addition to this, Wiley uses a strong use of colour, especially vibrant colours running throughout the background of his work. Classes are also associated  by colour, for example, gold, sliver and bronze. Straight away, as you read the word gold you relate it to the existence of something royal, with class and certainly with money. Therefore, I wanted to experiment with this idea, using gold spray paint and sliver, using such "pure" colours and tones to create graffiti which is something highly pushed aside by societal values, i.e. the government. The most ironic part of this experiment is when I went to buy the gold spray paint, I could only afford the sliver. The whole time I'd been thinking and talking about this class difference, preaching it in anger to myself and people around me, and yet, it still ironically applied in the exact same way to me. So, I bought the sliver, I will go back and buy gold, but I would preferably like to create a sketchbook of spray paint experiments so will leave it to a later date. I started by lightly applying the spray paint to this piece, having never used spray paint before, I was still get to grips with the piece. I felt it went well, and that is gave me the ability to build up my process of spray painting. 

Processing with my use of tape, I burnt through a few pages of my sketchbook, then added tape over each section. After doing this, I applied heat to the tape, this left an alluring layer of materials upon materials. I would like to continue creating pieces like this, maybe laying canvas' on top of each other, or completely a small sketchbook with these running completely throughout it, and focus on creating small drawing and, or painting studies. 

Advancing into my experimentation with texture, I started to focus on tape, cello tape to be exact. I cemented the tape down onto the page, then gently applied heat, which left me with thin cobweb like textures. I certainly like how this texture turned out, I feel the fibrous material hanging from brush stroke to brush stroke, looks like slightly messier versions of the scratch like marks. 

Moving on from looking at cling film, I decided to move onto a  denser material, canvas. Rather than producing the piece onto a canvas, I cut part of the canvas away, and started to incorporate it into my work, using paint. I do not like how this piece had turned out, I feel the canvas stands out too much within the piece. However, I would like to try creating similar experiments but working on a canvas, I really enjoyed painting upon the tough canvas materials purely because of how dense it was, and how quickly it absorbed the paint. Therefore, I will absolutely be trailing out with a canvas'. 

As well as experimenting with various page colours, I decided to experiment with  scale. Scale is something extremely vital within any piece of art work. So far I had been working an a small scale, which was going well, but left me felling slightly trapped within my sketchbook Since finishing my sketchbook, I was able to move onto using various scales, so I decided to go big, and came out with these two pieces. Whilst, I did really enjoy working on a large scale, as it gave me a lot more room to work and a lot more space to create textures, I do not like these pieces, and see a lot of refinements which need to be made to them. Once going into a larger scale, I seemed to loose to ability to create subtle, tiny marks, in which I relished in within the previous studies. In addition to this, the cling film ended up being spread way to thinly across the piece. To conclude, at that point in time I was really unhappy with how the piece turned out, however, I decided to go back and refine it later on within my work. At the point where I wanted to refine the piece, I was experimenting with spray paint, something which will be presented on my blog at a later date, therefore I decided to go over these pieces with spray paint. This actually led to me creating more experiments with spray paint and texture within my book later on throughout my process. To conclude, I am happy with how the two pieces looks now, I feel they really relate well to the topic of Grime culture and well to " create a conversational piece". 

Coming to the end of the my sketchbook led me up to this page, as it always does. This is exactly where I realised I had not created any pieces of work on different coloured or types of paper. Therefore, I decided to continue my experiments onto the back page of this page. I feel it work well with the white tone, they were easily picked up therefore I was able to make a range of marks with them. However, I do not think it worked well with the red paint the red tones were only really visible once placed upon the white paint. To conclude, I am happy with how this pieced turned out, however felt working with black paper may prove difficult due to not being able to use certain colours, but this is something I doubtlessly would like to experiment with. 

Finding out that ash creates a beautiful basis upon mark making, I decided to create this piece experimenting with the charcoal like medium I uncovered. I feel this went well, the ash is just dark enough to allow me to create marks upon the paint but still light enough for the paint to shine through. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece turned out and would continue with using this mark making method, preferably on a large scale. 

Since, I did not have the heat with me for this piece, I decided to minimise the amount of cling film used within the piece. In addition to this, I felt it was time to start moving away from cling film, I had created intriguing experiments with it, and will go back to it later on within my work, however felt it was time to start looking at other types of material to work with. I decided to create thick layers of dark marks from the bottom of this piece, and place the cling film around the edges of the piece. I feel this worked well, I then moved onto add subtle amounts of white paint upon the black tones, just enough to allow me to make gentle marks within the piece. One thing in particular which interested me within this piece was the ability to create dark marks using the ash from the pages. It is something I would definitely like to start creating more marks with. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece turned out, I feel the light use of cling film created just enough of a textured base to bring depth into this piece. 

This piece is based upon experimenting mainly with texture and burn marks. I felt it was important to  trail out how much I could burn and melt the texture upon the page. However, I found it very difficult to melt the cling film with matches alone, using heat guns provides so much power it allows me to melt the piece instantly where as the matches allow small burns created as parts of the piece. Although using matches, I feel this piece still turned out well, the burn marks were successfully placed throughout the page, and I feel they sandwiched the glue, paint and cling film together in a extremely alluring manner. 

Using texture led me onto experimenting with panting the cling film. However, I am not going to lie and pretend Ive never done this before, I fully know paint and cling work well, my particular favourite is working with red paint and cling film. It creates this beautifully bitter texture which I think works really well. Therefore, I decided to trail it out within these experiments. I feel they worked really well, and feel I could defiantly take them further. Whilst I do like the bold colours created by the mixture of two dark tones, red and black, I also feel the light colours work really well and play adequately into the idea of destruction. 

Starting to integrated texture within my work, I carried on using cling film. I created layers upon layers of texture and paint, thickly applying the white paint and then melting various parts of the cling film to create this murky film covering up hidden burns marks lying underneath. To conclude, I happy with how this piece has turned out, the burn marks work well with the light and delicate paint marks made by the red paint, and intensify the dark marks made by the black tones. 

Texture is something I needed to include. So I included it. I started by using cling film, something I really enjoy using, due it being clear therefore allowing paint and other mediums to show through. In addition to this, a beautiful texture is created when any heat is applied to this medium. It completely melts and cripples creating brand new marks and pathways through the piece, every piece of it completely changes, nothing is the same. Therefore, I started to use cling film, then adding paint on top on the cling film, before allowing to dry. Once dry I added various burn marks within the piece. I feel this worked really well, the combination of texture, paint and gentle burn marks adapt together to conclude with something I find extremely interesting. 

For this piece, I intended to develop the burn marks further, instead I started to create holes within the page. This is something, I really like, as I would be able to reveal colours and other textures from the next pages therefore allowing me to reveal hidden aspects of pieces. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece turned out, however feel I need to add more texture into the page, also start to make more marks such a scratches. 

Burn marks is such a subtle way of creating texture within my pieces, and for this reason I continued to do it. In addition to this, the actual process of burning my pieces really relates to my work. When a person burns something, it falls away, breaks down and almost fades away. Therefore, I feel it really relates to the culture of Grime. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece turned out, I feel I could start to create deeper burn marks, therefore they strangely highlight the marks I have made. 

Starting to move onto looking at using contrasting mediums,  I decided to look at leaving light burn marks within the piece. Texture is something I love using but can over use, I wanted to create delicate texture within this piece because I feel all I needed to do was to highlight the edge of the pieces. For this, I decided to create detailed and delicate marks around the edges of the piece. I feel this went well, to conclude, I want to continue using burn marks throughout my pieces. 

I began by using blue pencil to create this piece, then slowly began to add white paint upon the piece. This left a layered effect, with some parts of the paint peeling aways revealing the blue pencil underneath. Whilst I like this piece, I need something, such as texture or something which will bring more depth into the piece. To conclude, I like this piece, however feel exploring texture would definitely bring something more to this piece. 

I do not like this piece at all. It does not show any development of my experiments, in fact it shows more of my previous experiments in which I stopped doing because they started to look the same! Therefore I have little to say about this piece, other than to conclude it does not work as a composition at all and will be refined. 

Continuing with using pencil, I decided to add a lighter amount of it within this piece, due to the last piece being slightly too dark. For this piece, I began with using pencil first then going over the pencil with paint very lightly, only using small amounts. I felt this worked well, so continued to make light marks throughout the piece. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece has turned out. Creating these types of texture remind me of the underneath of peeling wallpaper, the rawness of the wall being exposed, and this is something I really enjoyed. Therefore would like to continue with creating these pieces and developing them in further detail, for example, trailing it out on a large scale. 

Enjoying using the medium of pen, I moved onto trailing out pencil. I began by painting a white base onto the page, then slowly starting to add a pink colour, feeling as if the colour was not showing through enough, I decided to add hints of black tones throughout the centre. I started to then add pencil marks in contrasting parts of the page. I feel this piece works well, however I feel the piece should be viewed landscape rather than portrait. I did not turn the photo to make it landscape purely for the reason of it being created in a portrait sense and wanted to keep it true to it's form. To conclude, I am happy with how this piece turned out, and would like to continue using pencil as a medium.