No To Colour

After thinking about using colour for my piece and making my coloured half bra test piece i have decided to carry on not using colour because i feel that it is a more stronger design with no colour it looks a lot more like glass and that is what i think i am aiming for with this.

Number of knives

Number of Knives used on half the bra is Thirteen

Dale Chihuly

So my last test piece the coloured one made me feel like my work looked inspired by the work of Dale Chihuly's work with coloured glass because i feel that my test pieces look glass like and they also kind of have the same form as dale's coloured glass chandelier so i think my work relates to his work very well.

work by Dale Chihuly

COLOURED =]

So i made a coloured one =]

 Here is my classmate Alex modeling my coloured bra test piece i like the pleased look on his face in this picture.

Idea

After looking at my test piece i realised that it looks like half of a bra so i think im gonna roll with that idea and see where it takes me.

Digital Images I took of It

Some images i took of my test piece. 

 In the picture above i noticed that there was a reflection of some colours in it so maybe make a coloured one??

Making It

So i started making it using plastic knives which i know is a secondhand material but it's made and available now so for this test i think it's fine but later on i may cut some knives out of plastic using the jigsaw in the workshop. 

 

  This is the finished test piece =]

Another Knife Test

Even though the rest of the brief said that you can't do any head pieces i still really love the form of my paper knife sculpture that robin so kindly modeled for me so im gonna go ahead and try to make it anyway without thinking that it's going to be a head piece and just see what the form makes it.

The rest of the brief

Just got the rest of the brief that has the list of options of what we can aim towards making as a final piece and from looking at it and looking at the work i have already done i think i am going to go with my earlier decision of the body adornment one, but on the rest of the brief here it says that you can't make anything boring so no head pieces, bracelets or necklaces nothing that has been done a thousand times before. Maybe a little rethink of ideas.

My Paper Sculpture Stuff

Two of my finished photocopied knife tests, i don't think that the test on the right worked very well as it doesn't look very difficult to make and the form of it isn't very good.
The test on the left i think is my more successful one of the two and i hope to develop that one further in my ideas.

Because i decided that i was going to do some kind of body adornment i thought maybe a possible headdress??

This is robin holding it against her head  so i could see what it would look like.

Photocopied Paper Knives

With this one i tried to incorporate a Richard Sweeney style to my form of the Photocopied Knife Sculpture with the sphere shape of it.

With this one i started with a fan of  Photocopied knives and i didn't really know what to do with them so i left it for a while and then my inspiration came when i looked around the studio and i see the discarded curls of the paper from the back of double sided tape (pictured below) so i decided that with my photocopied paper knives i was gonna curl and twist them back up into the middle of the fan of knives I quite like the form that it had created in the end.

Knife Tests So Far

These are my knife tests that i have done so far for the collision project.

Andy Warhol's Knives Piece Dress

So i found this dress and i just knew this is the way i want to take it i really want to do body adornment now and create a piece thats going to adorn a body somehow.

Knives

I was looking through my Pop art book again today and i came across Andy Warhol's Knives piece i really like this piece because of the repeated knives i like the idea of lots of things repeating over and over not sure how to use this in my work though?

Sticking Knives Together

When i was using the paper knives it was really easy to just staple them together but how can i stick plastic knives together i have already tryed to use the hot glue gun but i found this to be very tacky and not very appealing to the eye.

I think i may take an idea from looking at Claes Oldenburg and Choosje Van Bruggens pieces and maybe heat the plastic to melting point and then try fusing them together sticking them to themselves.

Richard Sweeney

Richard Sweeney is a british paper sculpture artist whos work is of paper sculptures i like his work for its natural form and his good use of paper manipulation i actually attended one of his exhibitions called Affordable Art Fair which was good and seeing his artwork is the reason i now take my artwork back a step and try it with paper first because i believe that it gives you a chance to step back and think about where you are taking it and i also believe that the paper sculptures can be pieces of art in their own right.





I think that Richard Sweeney's work relates to my photocopied knives work because of the natural form and the natural shapes they both have.

I liked This

Because i have been curling my paper knives this really caught my eye and i really like the form of it.

Paper sculpture by Richard Sweeney

Paper Knives

So today i photocopied the plastic knives im using as i think it would be better to take it back a step and see how i can manipulate the paper knives as a material and then choose the best ones to expand my ideas with and then make the maquettes from them think i now need to look into some paper sculpture.

Melting Point

Found out today that the melting point of the plastic im using is 22 °F

What I Did Today

Today at home after deciding at college that im gonna use plastic for this project i started to mess around and play with some plastic knives left over from a party just doing some tests and i really liked when i curled them after dipping them in boied water and heating them so they start to melt.

My Favourite Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen Piece

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, "Soft Viola" (2002)

This piece of their art work has to be my favourite because out of all the pieces of artwork in the Claes Oldenburg and Choosje Van Bruggen: 'The Music Room' exhibition (2002) i like the way that they have distorted the viola's shape because its not too much that you don't know what it is to look at but it has still created a new form and shape to it.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen

After my last post i was talking to one of my mates who was asking me about Claes Oldenburg and then i remembered that he did big scale blown up sculptures and also did some sculptures with Choosje Van Bruggen that appear to be soft or melting.

Egg and Soldiers??

I found this picture on http://www.etsy.com/ a site where they sell handmade and vintage stuff i really like it because it looks very cute and soft and like what it is meant to be.
Before finding this i didn't know what soft sculpture was but now i think I'm going to have a look at soft sculpture artists.

Plastic Knives??

I was sitting in the cafe today and was looking around and happened to notice people trying to use the plastic cutlery and i noticed that they couldn't because the plastic cutlery was melting with the intense heat of their food which is actually stupid because how can you eat with them if they just melt??

but this did give me an idea possibly use plastic knives??

Idea

Today an idea just came to me knives i could do a project on knives i mean they are already sharp so how could i make them soft?? 

Collision

So we have a project called collision and we had to pick a bit of paper that has two 'Coliding' words on and i picked Sharp and Soft so my project has to include both sharp and soft.
My initial thoughts on this is that im gonna take the word literally no deep meaning to the words because then you have to really explain it i just want it to be right in the veiwers face that its sharp and soft.