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Concept Statement (300 words)

Using experimentation and contemplation to challenge the way you think about and use objects, avoiding their traditional use but creating a similar outcome. Crayons are created to be drawn with, often by children, and everything from their shape to the materials they are made from highlight this. However, by challenging this and using them in a contrasting way, it allows one to contemplate the way in which they choose to use objects. Not only does using crayons in their non-intended way create a similar outcome as simply drawing with them, in these examples it creates a better looking, more vibrant image. While a basic crayon drawing is childish and aesthetically dissatisfying, as seen in the second image, creating a similar image with melted crayon becomes much more interesting and artistic. This also looks at the way materials are thought of. For example, Crayons are mostly though of as a child's artistic instrument and for an adult to say they are drawing in crayon may cause them to be mocked. By challenging this idea that has been built up through social norms, one opens a whole new series of artistic options. I conducted a series of experiments including different ways of melting crayons and what you can do with them. If I were to do the project again i would continue this concept on a larger scale using a variety of different materials to prove them same idea. Personally I find using typically 'childish' ideas and materials to create a more advanced or challenging artworks an extremely interesting idea and would like to continue with this theme at some point.

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Assessment 3

Final Experiment- Melted crayon drawing

final work- I made some more of the spirals in an attempt to figure out how to do them perfectly and move onto a harder 'drawing', however they were very difficult to get right and i sort of ran out of candles. after some consideration of time and resources, i decided to stick to spirals for my final piece

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masking tape after it was pulled away. the wax has hardened so they are solid in that shape. not really relevant but i think they're cool

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mega crayon scribble part 2

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Assessment 3

Experiment 7

not rlly a planned experiment, i just wanted to use up the bits of crayon i had left over. turns out if you put them all together they dont look very nice and just turn into brown. i suppose i probably should have expected that actually bc i know how colours work but it still surprised me. they made a cool mega-crayon tho that was fun to scribble with.

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Assessment 3

Experiment 6 - Drawing with melted crayon.

i used masking tape as a stencil to create a spiral out of two different coloured crayons. while some worked better than others, overall it was quite successful. harder shapes however didn’t really work (and i accidentally knocked them off the table and shattered them before i could take a picture oops)

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Assessment 3

Experiment 4c

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Experiment 4b

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Experiment 4a - melting crayons with a candle

During my last assignment, where i used candles to draw with smoke, i noticed how quickly those candles melt and how much wax drips off. While i was skeptical of how fast it would work, i tried holding a crayon up to a candle. surprisingly it melted extremely quickly and by holding a handful of them together i could mix up colours and create an interesting abstract work. this was very fun to do and i did this a number of times (and made multiple videos bc i really like watching the wax melt)

i think i might like to do somethibf like this for my final work.

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Experiment 3 - Melting crayons in an oven

This one actually did work like i was expecting it to and didn't take *that* long to melt (7-ish minutes). i was thinking that it looked like paint and thought about attempting to paint with it but it hardened up very quickly so that might be difficult.

If i did want to try and paint i could maybe melt it in a bowl over boiling water, like you do with chocolate, which would keep it melted for longer but i would have to find materials like a bowl i didn't mind destroying so i have not attempted that yet.

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Experiment 2 - melting crayons in a microwave

After the hairdryer I really expected the microwave to properly melt a crayon. i dont know if it was the type of crayon, setting on the microwave, or time i left it in for but the crayon didnt melt at all. after 2.5 minutes it was barely warm and after 3 more minutes it was only a little soft and could be gently moulded. Possibly leaving it in for several more minutes would have done more but it smelled like burning and i didnt want to set my kitchen on fire so i stopped.

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Assessment 3

Experiment 1 -melting crayons

i had seen a picture saying that lighting a crayon like a candle would work as such and burn for several hours. That gave me the idea to see what i could do with melted crayon and as i didn't really want to start a fire on my bedroom floor, i experimented with what a hairdryer could do. I put it on the hottest setting and quickly discovered you really have to glue the crayon down if you don't want it to leave green wax all over your carpet (oops). It actually started to melt a lot faster than i expected and was quite exciting to watch, but i needed to find a less messy way to melt them.

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MCA class trip - 3 favourite artworks

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ClassWork visual poem - assignment key words (Movement Transform Combine Colour Challenge Test)

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Final Artwork

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Niki de Saint Phalle is a painter and sculptor who hid plastic bags filled with paint behind paintings and sculptures that would explode when shot at, covering the otherwise white artwork. The artist destroys her own work by shooting it, creating a new piece as it is coved in dark paint, following the concept of experimentation and contemplation.

In our creative process, we experimented with different materials and repeated actions as a factor of creation. Through the use of fire, liquid, and light, we exploit the destruction of a plain base to create pattern and shape, without the control one might have with a pen or paintbrush. We created abstract works that allowed the materials to dictate the result, rather than our own intentions.

Using movement and shadows, we wanted to give a poetic aspects to daily use objects. By assembling them with use of different lights and repeated movements, simple shapes seems to belong to a imaginary world. This inspires contemplation within the audience as they are forces to look at the shapes in a new way they may not otherwise have considered. By puting colour in bubbles, a new way of creating uncontrollable art is discovered, through the uncertanity of where the bubble travells to and when it will popped. The light can reflect on the paper through the wetness to create a different view of a single piece, so the resulted can be show at both side of the paper. Using a candle was unpredictable as there were many variables, including the type of paper, candle, wind, and distance between the paper and flame, all of which yielded different results. Even when the best combination of each was used, the smoke did not mark the page consistently or in a controllable manner. In the dye experiment, we explored how it is impossible to control how the colours mix when simply poured onto paper. This resulted in a colourful, completely unplanned artwork that revealed how different opacities, pigmentation and colour ratios were obtained at random.

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experiments / process for Assignment 2 (not the assessment statememt)

Creating smoke art this was very difficult as ordinary paper and a smaller candle don’t work. i was unable to create a ‘successful’ piece with the materials i had on hand, however this became interesting to the experimentation. not only does the type of paper matter, but the type of candle, weather, and how the flame was held to the paper. After several unsuccessful attempts and change in materials to a more laminated paper and longer, fabric centred candle, i was finally able to create the piece i wanted. By using a candle i created an uncontrollable, abstract piece. while i can control the materials, and how i hold the flame to the paper, i cannot dictate how it will mark the paper.

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