3D Recycling Project: Sketch book work

Before doing my final piece it was obvious I wanted to make a 3D tree. I knew this because of the artist Ardan Ozmenglo, who createdfsculptors of many different things, but she often did trees. 

Therefore i took her influence and firstly did 2D pieces with paint and coloured pencils as seen in the pictures below. One of my Favorite pieces of this project was done in my sketch book. this piece is seen below and it shows a little girl sitting in a tree. The colours i used in this piece were very influential to the colours i used in my final piece, as they are very natural and beautiful colours. All the work in my sketch book helped me in completing other work in class, and it was of course influential to my final piece.

3D Recycling project: classwork

Both of these pieces were completed in class, and they contributed into helping me complete my final piece. The first piece i did was a oil pastel based piece, which was very abstract as i also used tissue paper to add colour. This piece is the in the picture below. I did not think this piece was very successful. Although it shown many different colours, using color pastels simply wasn't my strong point. i Struggled to create any type of shading, and this resulted into the piece looking rather flat.

The second piece I did was much more successful. This piece was done with paint and it looks very good. This piece also signaled to me that I am very strong at using paint. This was the most influential piece of work i did, as i based my final piece solely around this.

3D Recycling project: Final piece

One of the most difficult tasks in this project was trying to work out what I would do for this final piece. However, with the help of other pieces I did in this project, and with the influence of artists such as Tony Cragg and Ardan Ozmenglo, before any hesitation I knew I would base my final piece on nature and preferably trees. I knew this was the right thing to do because i love the colours that Ardan Ozmenglo uses in her art, and i also loved the shapes of Tony Cragg's work. When combining these together I came up with the idea to do a tree that has an unusual look to it, but still has the beautiful colours of nature.

The process of constructing this piece was difficult and very time consuming. The first thing I did was build the trunk of the tree simply using card. I then added a base to the tree using cardboard. Once I did this I decided that the tree would build up like it was still growing. To do this, I could not just simply paint the tree as it would not give it the effect of it growing. Therefore I separately did a painting of a tree using the influence of my wire piece that i did earlier on in the project. Once I did this, I then photocopied a lot of this image and stuck then on as seen above.

When the base looked complete and the tree looked like it was growing up, I then cut around the base to give it an effect were it looks like the tree has roots. Also with the influence of earlier work (with wire), I decided to build the tree up even more and also give it branches.

The final thing i did to finish my final piece, was put coloured tissue paper around the wire, using PVA glue, and make it look like a solid tree. The picture above is my completed final piece for this project. 

Although i had my difficulties with time, i managed to finally create a good final piece. The thing I like about this piece is that I really like the base, because it looks as if it is growing up and gives it a sense that it is a living object. However one thing I am quite disappointed with is the top of the tree as it is not what I really wanted it to look like. I wanted it to look like lots of branches were coming out, but I simply did not have enough time, so I rushed it and i believe i could have done better. However, overall it is quite a successful piece as it combines all my earlier work together to create one piece

3D Recycling project: Continuous line drawings

One of the first things we did in the 3D recycling project was to create a kitchen item at home out of cardboard. I choose to make a frying pan, which can be seen in the picture below. After the class come together and compared the work we did at home, we decided to make a setup of these piece. the picture below shows the set up that I and 2 other students made.

The next step into further developing our work, we had to do continuous line drawing of the set ups around the class. I did 2 continuous line drawings as seen below, one of which is taken from my own set up including the cardboard frying pan that I made.

Overall i believe for quick continuous sketches, these are quite successful pieces, as they show that i can quickly transfer real life objects into a sketch.