Experimenting with paint colours for the wall behind the artwork. The warm greys seem to work much better with the metal colours than the cool greys. The warm metal colours make the cool greys appear more lilac, and this clashes with the metal itself. A bright calico colour seems to work best (far left)
I've been working on some calculations to do with bend allowances in metal. If you're bending pieces of metal, as I will be doing in the cylinders, at the back joint, it's necessary to allow a little more metal width, to account for the bend. Working with inches and thou. and converting to mm kept me concentrating for hours......
Here, I've made three life size models of three of the metal cylinders, in cardboard. This is really useful to check proportions are right, and that the relative sizes work together visually.
