These paintings show my exploration into using cardboard as a larger surface than I have done in the past, part of the reason I decided to attempt a larger piece of work was to experiment with my new oil sticks. I found that upon using oil sticks on corrugated cardboard, it was a struggle to get a smooth uninterrupted line due to the textures surface, this could be seen as an obstacle to overcome but also possibly a tool at times. I don’t feel like these are particularly well informed or successful paintings or pieces of work, I suppose it was more of just an open space to experiment with new ideas for me. In the first painting I was aiming to see how I would feel about a piece of work that uses mainly primary colours, I quite liked this effect as I feel like it gave a child like nature to the piece. I  used an ink roller pen to create one line drawings, sometimes blind drawings on the surface and try to incorporate them as a piece of the painting, I also took the end of a paintbrush and scratched into some wet paint and wet oil stick creating some hidden text, I think this was visually interesting and added depth. Though I don’t consider these paints to be successful, I would say they achieved my aim of helping me be more experimental and discover some likes and dislikes so in that sense they were successful.