DAT Capstone - Amy Caldwell

 Funny thing is, whenever I heard silver screen be mentioned to me as a material, I never really understood what it meant. I got it confused with silk screen and thought that silver screen was used for silk screening-who knows what I thought. So, this is where I began. After meeting the artist Elle Hendrickson, and seeing what they have made with silverscreen, I became pretty entranced with the process. They did briefly explain that silverscreen is what is used to make the lines on our road reflective and that it uses tiny glass beads... But did I understand how they used it? - absolutely not.  So, essentially, you can buy paint with silverscreen already mixed into it and it has a ton of uses. That's not what I want though. You can also buy the glass beads themselves, which I found to be surprisingly particular. Sites that sell the beads list their many specs with anything over 1.93 being sought after because it means it is the most reflective. These sites are also arguing the...

      In my painting practice, I have been interested in the use of layers and painting with transparent materials to create compelling pieces. I work with oil paint, so trying to find a compatible material became rather difficult.  My painting professor, Jordan Morgan, suggested I research Mylar. I tried to research what other people did with this material, but it was never exactly what I was looking for. The material was either opaque or the examples I found didn't even use oil paint. I found out that even though oil paint is a pretty durable medium, overtime, it is quite fragile. It is prone to cracking, yellowing, and with all of the new materials being created for oil paint, we don't know what it will do to the medium overtime. I found out that if I paint on a material that is not stiff enough, it will crack; If I paint on a material that is too smooth, the paint will crack off. Then, I finally came across Duralar. It is basically the same essence of Mylar, just...