Drawing Competition

There is a drawing competition on at the moment and I entered two pictures to see what would happen. Here they are:

I have to say, I really love doing these kind of pictures. They're done in ink pen. My mind just flows when I'm working on them and feel really good about them.

Bag and Newspaper Combination / More Video Tape

I wanted to work more with shredded bags, so I stuck a bag to the wall and started cutting slits in it. I then filled another bag with air and put it in the cut bag to see how it would look:

I decided to attach shredded newspaper to the bag filled with air and put it into the sliced bag:

I then suspended the piece with some string:

I then used more video tape as a drawing tool and incorporated my other experiments with the tape. Here are photos of different stages and different angles:

Cutting

I had been looking at artists such as Eva Rothschild, Charlotte McGowan-Griffin, Gabriele Basch and Robert Morris, and wanted to try more cutting. I love working with paper and card, and decided to combine these elements with the black plastic bags I had been using.

I first cut the bottom off the black bags and put them on the wall. I separately worked at a desk with cutting out shapes on sheets of card. Next, I attached the card to the wall, on top of the bags.

Next, I put a cutting mat behing the plastic, opened the flap on the card and started slashing and cutting the plastic behind it. This is what I ended up with:





Hanging Around

I decided to go a little further working with the black bags. I cut strips on the front of three bags, made circles out of wire and attached them to the tops of the bags. I then went outside and hung them on some trees. Here are a few pictures of what I got up to:

Here is a link to a video I did of them hanging in the grounds of the college: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAqXO0caDws&feature=g-upl&context=G2e06e92AUAAAAAAAAAA

I then brought them inside and hung them from the stairs in the college:

To be honest, they were more effective outside - but it was a bit of fun!



More Melting Update

I took the melted cellophene into the college and displayed it over black plastic bags along the wall in the corridor. Here are some pictures of how it looked. I was happy with it.

More Melting!!

I got a roll of cellophene gift wrap and took it to my Dad's. I wrapped it around some trees and used a blow torch to melt it. Here are some pics. I also got my Dad to video it.

It was tricky enough as the wind picked up just as I decided to tie it around the trees!! Typical!!

 

Here's a link to the video of it. I tried to write my name with the blow torch too, but it didn't come out very well!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpZCnNttYE&feature=g-upl&context=G2e06e92AUAAAAAAAAAA

This is my favourite part of the strip:

Thanks Dad for your help!

Further Sculpture

I wanted to try some cutting, and went with some video tape cutting. I cut about ten strips of video tape, tied them together at one end and stuck it to the edge of the table, and started cutting. I snipped it with a pair of scissors. It was a very fragile material to use.

I then attached it to the wall:

 Next I tried cutting with black rubbish bags. I cut the bottom off the bag and stuck it to the wall. Next I cut slits in the outter layer of the bag with scissors. It was hard to show its full effect with a photo, but here it is:

I plan to do more like this. Watch this space!!

Taster of Sculpture

Sculpture is my second elective. From starting off with brainstorming, by the end of the day we were to pick two actions that we would like to do. I picked 'to melt' and 'to cut'.

I started off with choosing plastic bottles to melt and join together. I went down to the workshop and used a melting gun and worked under the extractor fan. Here are some images:

Once I had them stuck together, I took some photographs up close. I like the effects.

Next, I took a range of things in to the workshop to melt and see what would happen. This ranged from video tape, to sweet wrappers to clothes hangers.

Here are a few examples of how things turned out:

I actually melted these under the grill at home. They melted quite quickly.

I know this has been done loads of times already, but I really wanted to try it myself. I glued the crayons onto a canvas and used the heat gun.

This is the video tape. I knitted the video tape and melted it. Because of the knitted/weaving form, it didn't really shrivel up. It gave a great effect.

Plastic straws. These held well together.

I loved melting these hangers.

These feathers didn't melt - they just started to burn!