Here is the second half of the broken vase. I don’t know what to do with this, I might just have to leave it as it is!
More Circles!
Tag: Art
Let There Be Light!
So I’ve finished my 1st semester yet for some reason I can’t help but make stuff. I recently had a bookmaking workshop; Our tutor had lots of paper left from our practice and was about to expose of it. You know me; I had to have it, so I spent the majority of my lunch and studio time cutting up bits of paper. In a nutshell, I tried to make another vase, it looked okay but I didn’t like the finished product. Perfectionist me tried my hardest to reshape the vase…. and it broke -_-
But I looked at the pattern on the inside and wondered what it would be like illuminated. I have a desk lamp. AND NOW I’M GOING TO MAKE A WHOLE RANGE OF LIGHTS! O_O”
BARNEY!
So Simone, Ryan (and his girlfriend) and I went to the lighting event held at the Natural History Museum; it was AWESOME but Simone had essays to write so we left early. Whilst on the bus, a couple and their little girl came on and Simone and the kid had a convo. So Simone asks “what do you for Christmas?” the girl replies ” a Dinosaur!” To conclude the future looks bright for the next generation (for Oxford anyway :P). The Natural History has this massive T-Rex by the entrance – which I’ll have next to my grand staircase but Simone is convinced she’s going to have one too but I’ll have it first MWAHAHA >:) – that coupled with the convo between the girl and Simone; it was obvious that I had to do something with Dinosaurs! Alice (good friend and block mate) has a brother that does origami and had a book on Dinosaurs! SEE FAITH!!!!!! you can guess what happened next… I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out the cryptic folds of the book’s illustrations -_- BUT I DID IT (with a few alterations :P) and for some reason I did it with purple paper; a subliminal message from my past. And I never realised, until now, just how camp Barney was!
1st Semester Assessment
So I had to showcase some of my work for my end of semester assessment and I’m on this postmodern vibe so I thought why not just show that. This is my….. Lord knows what it is. It’s been called an installation so I’ll go with that 😛 Sorry for the crappy image quality I left my camera at home -_- so I’m relying on my omnia 7.
Origami Fail 2
So I had to revisit my origami phase and decided to Google interesting patterns. So I spend literally a whole day obsessing over this vase and finished it only to see that I had 6 minutes to go catch the bus which somehow I got 😀 And I have awesome friends: Wolf made a prawn stir-fry, Callum made a cake and Lulu brought a pizza! on top of that Meg made banana bread… just comes to show the stereotypes of uni students doesn’t imply in our block *black woman snap* But yeah the vase involved 340 pieces and took me 8 hours to finish, probably because half way I had no idea what I was doing and I spent too much time making each piece -_- but I do hope to make a bigger vase!
What is this?
So Tom (art buddy) decided to bring this spool from the skips and just left it; it has been in the studio for ages. My first semester project is coming to an end so I’m producing work for assessment, it’s round so – as I have an obsession with circles – I decided to paint it. It’s been called many things of course the obvious being a table but I cannot come to the conclusion as to what it is. And this is the art studio on a clean day!
Orphism Disaster 2
So as I said I didn’t like my orphist painting so I chopped the painting into little cubes and I much prefer the boxes and cubes to the original painting. It just comes to show that a bad idea doesn’t necessarily mean you have to discard the work.
Origami Fail
So a while ago I was really into origami and started making complex structures. I felt lazy so I had lots of flyers from my freshers fair, didn’t want throw them away so I made an acorn. So on the day of presentation it fell apart, but I really liked the circular pattern in the middle of the structure. I do plan to make a vase though so i’ll have to research (youtube lol) how to start my base, as I feel that’s what let me down.
Tapes
So as I have litres of paint left I’m just thinking of ideas of what to do next. My inspiration came in the form of discarded cassette tapes, thrown away by the music department as they are currently redecorating their spaces. I was originally going to use the tape on the inside but the shells looked cool, and with litres of paint just next to me… It was meant to be! So I dipped the cassettes in the paint and grabbed another off-cut from the sculpture shop and this is the outcome. I want to explore this too, so I have a feeling I’ll be very busy next year 😛 Ha and I now use my hall room as my workshop, it’s not home so I don’t mind the mess 😛
Orphism Disaster
Alex (another great art buddy of mine) and I paid a visit to Orinoco (a local scrap-store) and got lots of free paint. I opened up our choices and these five colours looked good so I started painting an off cut I got from our sculpture workshop. I’m not a fan of this painting so I plan to do something with this.
Scoobies 2
My second attempt of creating scoobies on a bigger scale. I used various materials from electrical rope to natural fibers. The end result is not bad but I still want to make and even bigger scoobie O_O” So I’ll need to invest in some rope, which is ridiculously expensive… OH art 
Finished Cast
So from earlier we created a modroc cast of the lower part of our faces. The last technique we learnt involved adding shellac to the negative part of the cast creating a water sealed layer which we could fill with plaster creating a different type of cast. This was my end result and something told me it needed to be black so yeah.
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