Professional and Collaborative Practice - Maidstone

Date - Tuesday 28th March
Hours in - 9:15a.m. - 5:05p.m.
Job - Maker

9:15a.m.
Checked that the bracing on the back of game spinner were sturdy. The game spinner is now complete however, me and another student feel that putting a couple of screws in the back of the board to hold the block in place in case someone is too rough with the board would be a good idea (and so at some point either today or tomorrow this shall be done quickly)

 

I then moved onto sanding down the painted surface that the sliding doors sit on, to give a smoother surface for them to slide over.

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The main focus for today was starting the ombre on the flats, to begin me and another student started mixing up colours, using the same rosco pigments as previously tested, however as the boards are bigger we mixed larger quantities and enough to cover all flats, so that we do not have to remix colours and end up with a colour that may not be the same. we tested these colours on a primed board. initially we found the colour we mixed for the centre was too purple and so added more orange to it to help give a smoother fade.

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2p.m.
After mixing we marked out sections on the board, to put down a base coat, before we start to work on top and blend properly. We used rollers to apply the colour to these sections, overlapping the colours to stop straight lines.

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Once the colours where applied we stood two boards up and screwed them together and attached braces to them to stand them up so we could work into them easier.

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We used a dry brush and dab technique applying white emulsion to tone down the colours and help fade them together better.

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We weren't able to finish these today and shall continue with them tomorrow.