Relief Form

In this piece of work, completed over 1 lesson (plus homework and catch up lesson), we had to create our own version of 'Relief Form' artwork. To start with, we were provided with a strip of a magazine and a (lot!) of paper-clips. We then had to roll up and wrap around different pages of the magazine and paper-clip them together. Finally, we had to gradually remove the paper-clips and swap to Pritt stick. This was quite a simple idea- it wasn't a particularly difficult piece of work; it just took a lot of thinking to get the different shapes created. Here are some photos of my work (However not yet completely stuck with Pritt stick)

Front view

Top view

Side view

There are some book artists who also use this style of art in their work repertoire, including Cara Barer. She also uses book and magazine strips to make different shapes. Of her work, one of the things that I think of first is 'Relaxation'. I think this because of the 'swirliness' and 'flowingness' of the work.Here are some examples.
I think her art is a lot better than mine; they are quite similar in the way that she has also used a book in a circle, like me. However, I like the way that hers don't seem to be very supported- mine really are very supported. I also like the background of them- I adds a lot of contrast to the colours.

I like this one because it is so simple,
yet is very interesting. 

I like this one because of the colour-
it has clearly been made out of a
phone book.