My Paper Designs
Here i have recorded some of the paper sculptures i created outside of the workshops and in development to producing my sculpture for the Atrium and for my celebratory poster for GF Smith papers.
I spent a lot of time experimenting with different techniques which Richard Sweeney taught me and i then put these into practice. After experimenting with the simple techniques showed me, i tried putting these into practice by creating sculptures based on my primary and secondary research, which was based on flowers, feathers and shells.
Experimenting with techniques:
I found the workshops very useful and they really helped me when experimenting with techniques to produce some small sculptures.
The sculpture above was early on in the project where i was testing out scoring the paper and forming it into an arch. This technique looks very neat and it could be useful later on in my development.
The sculptures above may just look like a 'mess' but there are actually some techniques and skill behind it. I cut many slits into the paper and messed around seeing what shapes or forms could be produced. I experimented with attaching parts together (not using glue) using 'slotting'. This is a technique which will certainly be handing further on in my development.
I found it difficult in workshop 2 to get the grasp of producing this repeated pattern/pleat so i took the time to master this technique because if i wanted to use it later on i needed it to be correct, due to my sculptures later on being more 'perfect'.
Now i thought it would be appropriate to experiment making a 'hanging' sculpture because i may decide to produce a hanging piece for the Atrium. I simple cut lines into the paper alternating sides, all the way down and then i hung it up to see what was formed. I do like the outcome but it isn't as interesting as i thought it was going to be. I will not be furthering this idea for this project.
Experimenting based on research:
I made a paper flower which was quite successful. Here is a more unusual photo of it. It doesn't show the actual flower but the slight shadow of the petals gives the impression that it is a flower.
The above three images are of a sculpture based on the natural form of a shell. It was simple and easy to make, all i did was cut slits all the way down the piece of paper and bent them over and cut a slit so that the end of the piece of paper could slot into it to hold it in position. I purposely let the length of the paper go from longer to short so that when they were bent around and slotted into the slits, it would give the shape it has.
Here i have done a similar thing but made the lines of paper more slack so that it isn't a 'tighter' shell sculpture.
Here Peter Callesen inspired me from my research. I simply cut out the flower shape and then folded up parts which i wanted to stand up. This made the sculpture 3D very easily without having to attach parts or slot parts together. The outcome was very successful and i enjoyed the process of it. It wasn't too challenging to produce but i think if i wanted to produce a more complicated sculpture in the same way i think it would be a big challenge.
Above i tried to produce a shell which i researched earlier. It didn't turn out completely how i wanted it to but it is still rather interesting. It was easy to produce because i had used the technique many time during this project. However i did want it to look like a shell but the outcome also looks a little bit like a flower. I think flowers are going to be my main focus in this project so it could be useful that this was produced.
Here i tried producing a larger sculpture. I used a technique which wasn't shown to us in any of the workshops with Richard Sweeney. I used 'layering'. This wasn't very successful and i didn't like the outcome but it could be a lesson learnt, not to use layering to make the sculpture bigger. I will now try making a large sculpture but with a different technique.
I decided to try making small 3D sculptures and repeating them so that i had several of the same sculpture, then attach them together some how to make a large piece. I wasn't entirely sure what i wanted the final outcome to be but i went with the flow and produced 3 small scale 3D boxes and put them together in different ways to produce a free standing sculpture. It wasn't a very interesting outcome but if i was to make more small 3D boxes, something amazing could be produced out of this.
Here i was inspired by my research and i tried to produce a piece where the writing is all cut out but all attached together by an image through the middle along with a boarder. It did work rather well but i think it could be more accurate and i the image in the middle could be more relevant to the company and what it being advertised.
