When considering the material I want to work on when creating 'Gehenna', I know I want it to be a surface that is compatible with a multimedia style of working. It is essential that the surface takes well to pencil, acrylic paint, oil paint, acrylic ink, indian ink, oil pastel, chalk, spray paint and whatever else I see fit to achieve the visuals I've planned in my thumbnail. I'm aware that pencils don't work to achieve a realistic figurative drawing on canvas, at least not with out the drawing being incredibly grainy; which isn't what I want. Therefore it makes sense to seek out a high quality paper that is compatible with both wet and dry mediums, where the paper won't buckle under the weight of a heavy paint pour and that will also be smooth enough on the surface to ensure any pencil drawn areas aren't grainy. After much research and experimentation with paint pouring in the first year of uni, I came across a paper that ticked both these boxes, a heavy weight 400gsm paper. Now that I've found a paper that will allow me to work in multiple mediums within one piece, it's important to me to practise my drawing skills on a smaller scale and to conduct a series of experiments that embody the surrealist, otherworldy aesthetic that I plan to bring to fruition in my planned larger paintings such as Gehenna. I drew a variety of different imagined scenes where I was able to experiment with colour, shading, capturing the human form, surrealism and masking all on paper before committing to the final piece. I think these exercises were a great opportunity for me to broaden my experience with working on paper and I certainly learned a lot in regards to the mediums I was dabbling with. Although the visuals in these sketches aren't exactly what I'm hoping to render in my paintings, I think they will still inform my practise and the way I approach my more defined pieces.
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