Colour Wheels

A colour wheel is bacically a chart of how all the colours are mixed. You start with the three primary colours; red, blue and yellow, then mix each colour to make secondary and tirtiary colours.

After I started experimenting with colour and my paper shape i decided i wanted my sculpture to be really colourful. I thought about somehow creating a colour wheel within my sculpture.

The work below is by Jen Stark. I find it really inspirational. It must have taken absolutely ages to layer up all those sheets of paer and twist them in a certain way so you can see each and every one!

Paper Shape

The paper shape i've decided to use for my sculpture reminds me somewhat of flowers and how the middle of the flower is usually a different colour to the petals, or full of seeds.

Walking home I saw how daffodils had bits coming out of the middles and wondered if I could possibly do something similar with my shape and add colour to it.

I tried it out on my shape, just adding abit of watercolour/ink to the middle of the cone on the inside. It didnt come out quite as I expected as the paper I used was too thin and soaked up all the water and the paper started to turn to mush. Should probably use a thinker paper next time!

Peter Callesen

I've always admired the works of Peter Callesen. The way he manages to create pristine white, clean cut peices of work amazes me because whenever I try there's always one bit that gets messy!

The paper images that are cut out are usually still connected to the original sheet and are cleverly transformed into 3D objects.

Workshop

Working on a larger scale this time we carried on looking at how to create repetitive shapes using one sheet of paper.

I started off folding the paper and then folding them back to make them 3D. I think this method would be quite affective if you were to make a simple shape but harder if your aim was to make a larger sized sculpture.

By drawing and cutting out a template it makes it easier to make repetitive shapes that are all the same size.

I quite like this shape. It was made using a square and scoring a cirdle in the middle. I then slit from the middle diagonally to one corner. Byt twisting it I ended up with a cone in the middle of an arched tirangle. This shape is quite easy to make, and I think for my sculpture I might try to make something using different sizes of the same shape.

This was just a quick experiment based on the veins in leaves. I think it works quite well but wouldnt necessarily work for a sculpture. 

Jeremy the Geranium

 

As I was on my way out to collect some primary research I realised I had plenty just sitting on my windowsill! The way the leaves all grow in the same shape no matter how big or small they are shows the natural way the plant repeats itself. You can also clearly see how all the veins in the leave all stem from one point at the bottom of the leaf.

The spikes/thorns/prickely things that are a pain when they end up in your finger, all grow in rows along the cactus itself and grow in a star formation from each point.

  

There are plenty of repetitive patterms to be seen here on my lucky bamboo, (dont know why they call it that Ive not had much good luck since buying it). The way each stick curls as it grows forming a spiral, the lines that break up the bamboo into segments and the way that the leaves grow out of the top are all forms of natural repetitive pattern.

Origami Dollar Bills

As we were working with paper I decided to do some research on origami. It originates from east asia and has become widely popular. You can make anything with a single sheet of paper if you know how to fold it right! Here are some I found made out of dollar bills from america.

Above are an origami camera, elephant and turtle. The detail you can achieve with such a small amount of paper amazing! Below is a picture of an origmi toilet with movable toilet seat! haha I love it.

I wanted to try out some myself so i decided to make something that looked abit more simple. Above is the heard made from a dollar bill that I attempted to make myself, and was quite successful!

They werent so difficult so I then moved on to try the more traditional Swan or Crane. After a few goes I was able to make them so they actually looked like what they're meant to look like :)

Inspiration

After the first workshop session with Richard Sweeney I started looking at natural forms and repetitive patterns. Things like waves, sand dunes and flowers are the first things that came to mind.

Flowers all have repetitive patterns within them, whether it be the lines, the way the petals are arranged or the way the leaves grow around them.

 The way the dandilions petals(?) are arranged on the flower made me think of how to produce something similar using paper as a 3D structure.

Rob Ryan

Rob Ryan has greatly inspired paper projects that I've done in the past. His beautiful papercut designs are greatly famous for the intricate detailand creativity. There's a certain charm about the way the text is cut out, creating its own font. The whole design is cut out of one sheet of paper and all elements of it connect.

 Rob Ryans work can be seen on anything from vases to book covers and cards for all occaisons.

This stunning dress was designed and made by Rob Ryan completely out of paper! I think when designing my final poster design for this project I'll definitely be experimenting with papercut.