My second piece working on unstretched canvas: I wanted to work more with the canvas itself and so in this piece warped and manipulated the surface more severely. I added a series of washes with water colours and acrylic paint and worked on the abrasions and rips in the canvas with materials like charcoal, graphite and conte crayon. Initially I was only going to work on it in this way but while I liked certain aspects of the piece, such as in the right image shown above, I did not think the piece worked as a whole. It looked unfinished and underdeveloped.
To combat this I began adding materials such as mod roc to the surface in order to vary the texture and add dynamism to the piece. I think the weight of the mod roc gives it some grounding and situates the piece more firmly in the space as an object rather than a flat, unfinished 2D image.
The image above is the stage I am at now with this piece of work. The loose white wash of acrylic brings the textures together as one surface and accentuates the abrasions. It now sits well alongside the first canvas piece, which it did not before. They now both suggest the same ideas and themes but explore them in different manners and through different materials and I think this a successful aspect of the two unstretched canvas pieces.
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