Cardboard Progress Report

I am making a cow bone replica out of cardboard and this is my current progress. As you can see my strategy is glueing cardboard together into a block and then carving and sculpting the object out of that block. Lets see how far i make it before i lose a finger.

 medium made and first round of shaping:

 Second round of shaping:

Photo Safari

We were instructed to take photographs of our environment showing pattern, rhythm, texture, translation, reflection etc. These are my top 8 favorite ones.

translation/reflection:  progressive

translation/reflection: progressive

translation/reflection: informal texture

rotation: non-progressive 

translation/reflection: non-progressive rhythm

translation pattern: non-progressive

Texture: informal non-progressive pattern 

translation/reflection: non-progressive 

Dot Compositions

With our creativity tied to a short range of black dots and a piece of paper, we created compositions that showed action, movement, or even just position. We then matched this with a real life replicated composition consisting of people's bodies. Sounded easy enough but getting everyones cooperation was a tough task in itself. Then matching the dots exactly was the most difficult part about it. Soon enough I figured out how to adjust my angle and frame and eventually got it to work...for the most part.  

                                         

PROJECT #1 NEWSPAPER CHALLENGE

First day of WASH and it did not disappoint. The challenge: create a newspaper structure to independently hold a cinder block as high off the ground as possible. Sounded easy enough but with a limited amount of newspaper and the only adhering substance being elmers school glue, it was a bit of a challenge.

My first design consisted of two parts; the bottom had three legs and the top had a thick cylinder to directly support the block on top. That design fell through. The three legs could not support the overall structure while maintaining, well, its structure. (lol)

My second, last minute, design was the winner. I went with  much more basic circle on top of triangle insuring that stability wouldn't be as much of a problem. I still was able to maintain the same height but it definitely wasn't as pretty. It held up though at a height of 22 1/2 inches. It wasn't a winning number of course but good enough for me!