Starting a new project

Based on ideas gathered last week at the seminar I have begun making my paintings.

Firstly I gathered 4x Resene 4Lx4L sized boxes and lined those boxes with FutureProtect masking film, (for easy removal once the paint dries).

Then I have poured 2 types of common interior paints inside those boxes to create the fist layer of the paintings. Those 2 types of paints and paint colours were as follows:

1. Thorndon Cream, a colour from the current whites and neutrals fan-deck, mixed in salvaged Lumbersider Low Sheen

2. Half Sea Fog, a colour from the current whites and neutrals fan-deck, mixed in salvaged Hi- Opacity Ceiling paint from the tradie 'Decorator Range'

Both of these paints/colours are common for customers choosing walls/ceiling paints.

• I plan to keep a record of what paint type and what colours I use throughout the creation of these paintings.

• I plan to use paint colours that myself or other employees and designers frequently recommend for main interior and exterior colours, feature walls, doors, roofs, fences ect.

• I will source all paints from the eco-waste bin at work.

• I will collect different shaped/sized containers to create these paintings in

• I plan to have multiple paintings at the go at any one time to allow for the extensive dry time

Below are photos of my progress:

The slightly creamer white is the Thorndon Cream, and the whiter white is Half Sea Fog

Below are some potential articles I am thinking of using for my lit review.

• Everyday Aesthetics by Yuriko Saito http://www.timothyquigley.net/ipa/saito-everyday_pl25.pdf

• Experience of Awe: An Expansive Approach to Everyday Aesthetics https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgiarticle=1321&context=liberalarts_contempaesthetics

• The History of Women in Interior Design: A Review of Literature https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1939-1668.2007.tb00418.x

• Chromophilia: The Design World's Passion for Colour https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93592/8/JDH-2014-0033%20R2%20Chromophilia%20The%20Design%20World's%20Passion%20for%20Colour%20Blaszczyk%20to%20White%20Rose.pdf