Map development for background of final
During my research, I came across a website (angloburmeselibrary.com) where I found many more documents and information I wanted to incorporate into my final piece. One main piece of information I found was a map showing evacuation routes on foot from Burma to Assam, India. This map intrigued me as its all hand written and contains so much detail, and someone would of had to draw this out, and in 1942, I assume it would be rather difficult to plan to evacuate a whole city, so although its just a map at first glance, the marks made represent the emotion of the artist who created it, and how some of the towns names are scribbled and messy, whereas some are neat in capitals. This shows a variation in the marks created.
I want to incorporate this map onto the background of my piece, on canvas, I've gone several trials on different backgrounds to come to the conclusion of which background would be best. I tried drawing the map over white acrylic, which made the map standout a lot but I think it looked too new and clean, I tried simple tea staining on the canvas and I found this was good as it slightly aged the canvas, but it was still very light. I also tried, over acrylic, pouring tea over the canvas, and adding clingfilm to hold the tea in a very crinkled and sharp pattern, I liked the outcome but the tea made the acrylic almost purple, so I tried this again but instead over acrylic I did it over one layer of tea staining, and this was my favourite outcome.
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| map over white acrylic |
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| map with one layer of tea stain |
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| map with one layer of tea stain and splattered tea on top |
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| map over white acrylic and tea dried with clingfilm |
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| map with one layer of tea stain, with tea dried with clingfilm over the top (this was my favourite outcome) |
During my research, I came across a website (angloburmeselibrary.com) where I found many more documents and information I wanted to incorporate into my final piece. One main piece of information I found was a map showing evacuation routes on foot from Burma to Assam, India. This map intrigued me as its all hand written and contains so much detail, and someone would of had to draw this out, and in 1942, I assume it would be rather difficult to plan to evacuate a whole city, so although its just a map at first glance, the marks made represent the emotion of the artist who created it, and how some of the towns names are scribbled and messy, whereas some are neat in capitals. This shows a variation in the marks created. 
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