Monday, 14 March 2011

photos of my sculpture in the atrium

I had intended to suspend my sculpture between the mezzanine floors using thread, but when I got there to take my photographs, I realised that I had left my thread at home :(
so rather than take no photos at all I decided to take them with the atrium in the background:















Sunday, 13 March 2011

poster

This is the mock up of the design I've chosen to print for my poster:

Sunday, 6 March 2011

final sculpture

These are some photographs I have taken of my final sculpture, one of which I hope to use on my poster design:



The above photo's I have tried to keep as natural looking as possible because I like the colours the light hitting the curves & cuts in the paper gave as well as the shadows which to me, give the shape a look of coral.





These photo's I tried on a black background which made them stand out more than the white & it shows the shapes much better I think. 
The only thing that I would do to improve my sculpture would be to try & disguise the joining of the edges where I used a stapler, so that they looked seamless. 


Wednesday, 16 February 2011

playing with shadow on cut outs

Using a scalpel I cut out the brick shapes from the page, then photographed the page lifted up slightly to create a shadow:

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

paper sculpting continued....

From a piece of A3 size paper cup vertically I cut out bee hive related shapes from the sections then played around with bending and curling them around until I decided on a position & glued it in place.



With the cut out sections I had a go at joining them together by slotting them into one another like this:
                      These kind of reminded me of the cactus that look like it joins together:
                                    
                                       
I also reverted back to the first paper folding workshop technique that I learnt which was using a scalpel to slice evenly along the page, but I tried it at an angle to see what would happen:




I thought these shared a slight similarity with sea shells: