The AMAZING CARDBOARD BRUSSEL SPROUT. [Part One]

Our 3D project for this week and next week(?) is to make a cardboard sculpture of something that is not manmade. We were given a variety of objects to choose from, and for some odd reason or another, the brussel sprout caught my eye. I decided to try and make a small version of it to test what would have been a very time consuming method. Fortunately, that idea didn't work out, and it was back to the drawing board. I decided to make a large center, with just two criss-crossing shapes, and then cover it in craft paper to make a more solid shape. After I finish with this, I plan on using larger sheets of craft paper to make a more leafy texture. I really hope to capture the different layers of leaves, and get it looking correct...

DOTS! and dots and dots and dots.

In class on Tuesday, along with working on our 3D sculptures, (mine's a Brussels sprout! more on that later though) we worked on some elements of 2D design. The project was to first get different sized dots, and randomly drop them onto a large sheet of paper, and then find three 5"x5" squares that contained composition that was pleasing to the eye. Then we were to glue them to small pieces of paper and discuss. After we discussed the initial three, we were sent back to make two more: one that had very little illusion of depth, and one that was purposely planned out to be pleasing to the eye. The point of the random dots was to see patterns that our minds may not have been able to plan out itself. Usually when strategically placing dots, your mind follows a few set patterns and it hard to get away from them, so the purpose was to avoid that with the first three squares.

WASH: day 1. Newspaper Towers!

I was pretty excited to find out that we were already jumping into projects the first day. The assignment; to make something out of newspaper and glue that would get a cinderblock as high off the ground as possible. When making the "tower", I knew that rolling newspaper into tubes would be the strongest option. Although you cant tell in the picture, the big tubes are actually filled with smaller tubes. When done this way, newspaper can actually be quite strong. Especially when reinforced with LOTS of glue. Like, a whole lot. Like 2 bottles worth. It held the cinderblock well, and measured 23 inches. In hindsight, I wish I would have had time to make it more visually appealing. It's a pretty utilitarian structure, just two tiers of newspaper tubes stacked on top of each other, with a few ads glue haphazardly in between. I did learn that with one project, there are about a million ways you can approach it. There were people weaving, crumpling, hanging and stacking their newspaper in different ways. I was really surprised at all of the different ways you could compile newspaper.