Recycled Flowers

Equipment:
- 1 sheet of a magazine 
- 6 thin strips of cardboard
- masking tape
- scissors
- pencil 


Process:
- roll up the magazine page as tight as you can and secure with masking tape
- get one strip of cardboard and wrap it around a pencil to make a swirl or twist
- repeat with the other 5 card board strips, varying the size etc
- cut each of the cardboard strips a little at the end, in a triangle sort of shape, so they get wider going up to the swirl
- place the cardboard swirls in one of the ends of the rolled up magazine, at random
- secure with a bit of masking tape to give it a nice finish

Bottle Slumping Preparation

Equipment:
- mat
- rolling pin
- knife
- fork
-  water pot


Materials:
- clay - plastic consistency


Process:
- cover the bottle in paper towels and secure with masking tape
- get a piece of clay and flatten it with your hand
- wrap it around the bottle to check its the right size, then take it off again
- keep turning it over so the thickness is evenly spread 
- trim the edge to give a neat finish 
- make to long sausage shapes with the spare clay that you trimmed off the hold the glass bottle in place                                                     
- cross hatch 4 area's on the clay slab a bit like this |: :|
- make 4 small balls and crosshatch the bottom of them as well
- get a little water on the fork and stick the 4 balls to the clay 
- leave the mould to go bone dry


It will be holding the bottle in the kiln at 1100'C

                                                                  

Relief Form :)

Our Relief Form work was inspired by the work of Cara Barer .

Our task was to create an imaginative piece with inspiration from Cara Barer's work. She first got the idea after seeing a yellow pages book in the rain and seeing the waves and shapes that formed when it was out in the rain. She then tried it out herself, dampening the pages and then curling them into all sorts of circles, swirls, and twists.

We tried to create something similar ourselves in class. We were given a slab of a magazine, and a hand full of paper clips, and started to shape the pages. It was quite fun but it took quite a long time (: After we had paper clipped all of our work, we had to glue where the paperclips had been to give it a better finish. I think our work looks quite similar to Cara Barer's work and am pleased with it (:

3D projecting form

 We were given the task to make a 3D sculpture coming out of a book. We were shown some examples by other artists, then we had to make one of our own. I got given a story book and decided to look for a line or phrase within the book to create a response to. After looking, i found the line '..and drink tea with us this afternoon' which i think is a great line you have a lot of freedom to make a response to. I chose to do a tea pot, but  If i had more time i might have done 2 teacups and some cakes and it would all be much neater. :)

I found this church/house whilst researching. It even has windows and birds flying in the sky. I think it is amazing, its so intricate,  and delicate and must have taken a long time!

This alice in wonderland themed 3D form we saw in class gave me inspiration for my art, the detail is so intricate and precise. Even the table cloth has fine dots for extra detail. I would love to be able to make a piece like this. The mugs of tea and cake etc inspired me to make a tea pot.