Finished Piece

This is my final product to be displayed within the Final Show. I'm very happy with my result and I can't wait to see it being used!

I split the shapes created on my surrounding canvases into two for use with the magnetic board. This is because I want people to either create chaos (which they cannot do if all the pieces are already in one shape) or to retain order in line with the canvas pieces. This gives the user more freedom when using the shapes to create whatever random patterns they like.

This is what my surrounding canvases will look like. Pieces all cut out of foamboard now - I have painted each piece with a white acrylic to try and neaten up the edges as foamboard is not the easiest thing to cut, and damages easily.

I continued the paper dropping experiment on the other 5 surrounding canvases. I did apply a matt varnish over the top of these so the card wouldn't peel off. Ideally, card wasn't the best material to use for this, but I wanted to keep it in line with my other experiment, so it wasn't just an unexplainable random choice.

After cutting out my foamboard shape I lay it on top of my chosen shape on my canvas. This is an effective way of showing which shape I chose out of a few different options.

Cutting Method

Once I had chosen my shape to go on the canvas I used a pin to poke holes through my foamboard to draw around so that I knew where to cut. I know this seems an odd way of doing things, but it worked.

After my shape was drawn.

Cutting around my chosen shape to place on top of my canvas.

I then repeated this process for the other 5 surrounding canvases .

Going back to an earlier experiment

For the patterning on my surrounding canvases I went back to one of my earlier experiments. This was dropping coloured card onto a background and removing excess pieces to create a shape. For these I repeated this process, but instead of taking the excess pieces away I left them in. This was so I could cut the shape out of foamboard to lay on top of the canvas so that people could easily see my chosen shape, but also see what surrounded it.