The material that I want to explore for phase I is wood. I'd like to focus on wood burning, carving, and possibly experimenting with watercolor. I have very little experience with wood burning, but I think it would be interesting to try and take a 2D drawing and turn it into a drawing on a piece of wood. I have never used watercolors on anything other than watercolor paper and hand made paper. I've heard that watercolor is very unpredictable with how it reacts to different surfaces. Especially surfaces that aren't made to retain it. I'd like to explore this myself and see how the watercolor will react.
5 Questions about Wood:
1. What type of wood?
2. Does the type of wood matter and does it affect the wood burning?
3. What should the shape of the wood be? A square? Rectangle? More Orgainic?
4. Difference between found wood vs. store bought wood? Does it matter?
5. Does the stain/color of the wood matter when it comes to burning or watercoloring?
A lot of the answers to these questions are going to be found by trial and error. I'll need to be able to test out the materials myself to figure out how they will react to each other. The other answers might come with personal preference to my project and the connection to the concept that is going to drive the piece.
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