Forest No 2

After doing the latex forest wanted to try another one but a little differently, after a crit last week another tutor who knew I had plans for a forest gave me another idea.

      

Took some forest photos in Cratloe Woods

Got a semi circular box and lined it with reflective paper to give the impression of more trees and different lights would be reflected from within at different times.  

At first I was going to make my own trees bought a long pole and some pipe insulation (like a foam pole) they were about the right size for my trees. I then printed out some old parchment and started sticking them around my trees I had a few done but thought they didn't look or feel right, I had some bits of trees in my back garden  and I also went out for a walk to collect some more. When I got home and put in these bits I thought they looked much better but I felt thet I was cheating, then I said feck it! does one always have to do things the hard way?other artists use natural materials when they can, American artist Meg Webster for example and english sculptur Anthony James.

The light can make it look different at different times, and in different places because of the mirrowed background

Latex

As suggested by one of my tutors I took some photos of trees and another tutor suggested I could paint latex, so I thought I would put the two together and do some latex trees.

Some experments with latex

Applied three layers of latex to a smooth surface (which was first sprinkled with some talcum powder to prevent sticking) when this was dry I painted it with a pallet knife

I had to do a lot of these as I wanted a little forest I did 16 and these are about 5ft tall but the stink of the latex was nauseous did some at home as well, nearly asphyxiated everyone

Well, I hung up my latex trees on two circular supports I liked the way the light shines through the latex showing the bark like paint effect

               Used some silver tin foil to make leaves/stagalactites used spotlights and a fan to blow

These trees were 5ft tall, I just thought (when it was too late) I should have gotten a small girl dressed like a wood nymph to walk in and around them , I also thought about getting a dry ice machine but the cheepest one I could find was in Maplin and that was €50 

Back Again

Glad to have my History of Art essay finished but still hatching the CCS one it's been a few decades since I have had to do one of them. In the meantime I have been doing some ceramics classes which I really enjoyed and also life drawing (should do more of this if so many things were not clashing)

This is my idea of blowing through a dandelion and the seeds dispirsing, the piece has just to be glazed

Did another piece along the same design but it was to be a flowing motion this time .

I was  going to do this in white with a blue stream flowing through the furrow in it but when I went to the kiln to get it, it had blown up, it wasn't the only thing that blew up that day! but that is the nature of ceramics.

I had seen some fantastic pieces on display that morning such hard work and such perfection, here are two of my favorite pieces

I love these two rogues

Beautiful

Paper Pods

This week working on two different pieces, the liquid latex one is slow and TOXIC waiting for it to dry.

I wanted to make something light and airy got some balloons covered them with tissue paper dipped in wallpaper paste then I put some fiberous paper on one of them, stuck bits of confitti on another, bits of wool on another and some nett material on another, I painted them with some watered down ink, I choose pink and lime green as they are light flighty colours I wanted them to look like they were blowing away.