3D Projecting form

This weeks (and last weeks) work was 'sculpting' objects, 'coming out of' books. This is how I did mine.

1. I got given an old book by my teacher Miss Gardiner, and looked through it to decide what I was going  to do with mine. I got given Five fall into adventure by Enid Blyton, and so I thought that it might be a good idea to literally have five (people), falling into a hole.

2. To start it off, I began rolling little tubes of newspaper and little balls and stuck them together. This worked, but it didn't look very effective. So, I made a litteral stick man template out of card, and then drew round it 15 times, on a sheet of thick, corrrugated cradboard, and also 10 times onto a piece of newspaper.

3. I then cut them all out, and then began sticking them all together (with PVA glue) , going Card, newspaper, card, etc. In each person, there is a total of 3 cardboard shapes and 2 newspaper shapes.

4. Next, I did papier mache with small, ripped pieces of previous pages in the book, all over the men.

5. After this, I stuck five sets of five pages together with Pritt stick, and on each one, drew a circle, getting smaller as I went down the book. I then cut each one out using a craft knife, and around each hole, again I used small strips of the pages to make the sides stronger. I ended up with 5 holes, to look like one hole, just with different layers to it.  

6. Finally, I stuck the people down with small strips of masking tape, and covered the masking tape over, in the same way as I had done prevoiusly with paper and PVA glue.

I'm quite pleased with my final outcome. I think that the hole worked well, and the people look fairly effective at different distances away from the hole. However, If I did a similar one again, I would work on the accuracy of the five standing up. You can still see the glue holding them on, and in the end, on several, there must be about five layers of glue! I would also be more careful with the delicate pages- unfortunately, I managed to tear a couple of the corners.

Here are some photos of my finished piece (sorry- there are quite a few!!)
PLEASE NOTE: MY DAD TOOK THESE PHOTOGRAPHS!

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a particular artist that this kind of work relates to. I did find 'Words Create Worlds'- however I could not find who the work is made by. Here are some examples. I like the way that they have only used book pages- no other materials used (I used Cardboard inside the people to make them stronger) I also like the way that they have positioned the book- the colour of the book cover looks very effective. Unfortunately, I only had a paper back book- I could not position it in this way.