More Changes!

Okay, so last post I gave you a journey of my experiment with using a car as a drawing instrument.  It did a lot for me to really be in a working garage, surrounded by old cars and greasy parts.  I started realizing that I need to have that feel of a garage in my work.  I tried to be messy but it didn't communicated what I really wanted it to communicate.  I want my work to be enshrined, majestic.  I want it to be monumental on the page.  I do this by having a clean page other than the image I place onto it.  I decided to buy some wheel bearing grease to use as a painting medium.  It was clear, so I dyed it black using crushed charcoal and gouache.  I then started smearing it on paper to see if I liked the effect.  Turns out, I loved it.

Wheel Bearing Grease

Dyed with Gouache

Dyed with crushed charcoal for a gritty look

Crushed charcoal

Gouache

Smears

Trying to paint and create depth

Value scale

This is too hard

Dropping the parts in grease and then put on paper

 As you can see, there has been quite a lot of experimentation going on!  Let's keep experimenting!

Changes

It was recommended to  me to start using car grease as a drawing material.  I decided I wanted to use the actual car as a drawing object!  I contacted a friend of mine in Dayton who owns several old cars.  I threw around the idea with him of using his old car parts and his cars to draw on paper and to just experiment with different things.  He was very excited about my ideas and was totally welcoming to having me play around in his garage.  I drove the hour to his house and he showed me around.  He had car parts all over the place!  I was in heaven.  He showed me to his garage which was almost bursting with hot rods and car parts.  I started out by placing a huge piece of paper on the floor and he drove over the paper in his 1960 Ford Galaxie 500 2 dr hardtop.  It made a beautiful tire pattern.  From there, he grabbed a bunch of greasy, grimey, drippy car parts he had lying around.  I dug right in!  I laid them out on the paper and smeared them around.  This is the photographic journey of my experimentation.