Sandra Blow interpretation

There is  a particular piece of Sandra Blows work that I really admire. The name of it is "composition" and I really adore the use of material and colour she chose to create this piece with. It inspired me to start using material within my work again. Blow uses a the material called hessian, but I didn't have any of that so had think around it. I then had the revolutionary idea (well revolutionary in my opinion) to use a old cleaning cloth and stain it. I got a cloth which looks very similar to hessian but instead is a lot softer and easy to move around. It's the type of cloth your nan uses to clean the kitchen table with, very white sewn up with red thread. To get rid of the whiteness of the cloth I decided to soak it overnight in a metal tray of coffee. Although the coffee looked odd in the tray it covered that material really well. I wasn't too sure if it would work but to my surprise it was successful. I then dried the cloth out, it was still flexible, which was good when it came to placing into my sketch book and it look similar to the colour gold ochre. It wasn't quite a dense and compact as hessian is but it worked really well. 

I wanted to create a piece in the style of Sandra Blow, especially looking at the way she uses material . I knew I needed a plain back ground for my material, for it would really stand out and make an statement. Therefore I ripped the material I had previously used on work I didn't like and it left behind  really interesting marks, subtle but still very powerful, perfect to place my martial on. Instead of just shoving it down and bring done with it, I wanted to create movement into the piece. So, I had to decided which angle it should be at and how the material should be placed, after debating with myself for a extensive amount of time, I finally chose a position for it. Although when I had stuck it down, I was disappointed, it lacked movement completely. It was motionless. To solve this issue, I decided to use a dark brown pastel to create shadow throughout the piece, I then added white emulsion paint to create light tones. Overall this created a dark to light tone, which rippled down the material. I was pleased with this piece, I've never tried to create something like this before and the outcome turned out successful.