making wax and ice sculptures

I wanted to make scluptures of my shapes. I thought these shapes sculpted in a glass-like medium would look really delicate like pieces of jewelary. I made moulds out of clay. I then painted laytex onto the clay to make my moulds for the ice and wax.

    I first tried this using wax. I put coloured thread through the wax pieces. The colours I used represents the car lights. I wanted the piece to imitate the colour of the car light (thread) shining through the glass that protects it (wax). I think these turned out really well. The delicasy of the wax reflects the delicasy of glass. I think the coloured thread comming through the wax look really well.

I then made ice sculptures of the shapes. I made these sculpures smaller as I think they seemed more delicate.

Potatoe Prints!!!

 I wanted to incorporate print into my project! Of course I left it till last minute, so the first thing I thought of was potatoe prints. Doing this was loads of fun and I actully really like the way they turned out!

I was thinking about colour and couldn't decide. I did just plain black and white. I thought the simple black and white colours would reflect on the simplistic idea of potatoe printing.

Bleeching fabric!

Wel this did turn out a bit of a disaster but I said I'd blog it anyway! I tried bleeching fabric in the shapes of the car lights. I don't think my bleech was strong enough and I couldn't draw the shape without the bleech smudging all over the material but I think it turned out....kind of ok!

Making my own car lights!

I was researching and came across these artists that do 'light graffiti'. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 This is where they create art using lights. I thought this was amazing! Straight away I wanted to create my own car lights but i wasn't sure how to.

When I was taking pictures of my clay light boxes I accidentally moved the camera and got a stream of light comming from the boxes. This looked really like a car light..Bingo! :D I decided to do this using different ways to create my light.

 Here I used poy. Poy are two colourful balls attached to two seperate strings. Circus people swing these two strings in different ways to create amazing light shows. I came up with brillant pictures from using the poy. I think they really resembled car lights.

Here I used two flash lamps and just swang them around the room like a crazy person! Because I used two and they were white I thought the really looked like the headlights of a car.

Here I used two glowsticks to create my light. Although they didn't turn out near as well as the poy or flashlamps, I think they still slighty resembled car lights, and they made some nice light graffiti anyway!





I really enjoyed making my own car lights. I found this the most fasinating part of the project because no matter how hard I tried I could never get the same line or shape twice. I found it exciting not knowing how the pictures would turn out!

Adding a bit more movement to my work!

 I wanted to add more movement to the shapes of the car lights. I think they were starting to get abit stiff and life-less.

I dragged pieces of matieral comming from the shapes like the way a light drags from the car light itself.


I did this using many different mediums like...
Crepe paper and PVA>>








Tissue paper and PVA>>

<<Emroidery thread on black and white paper

<< Chalk pastels on stretched baby wipes





I think this gave the shapes great movement!

the different colours of light...

I was taking photos of cars passing on a wet road. One photo in particular I thought had amazing colours from car and street lights. In this piece Donald maier made car lights illuminate on the page by using pastels.

I tried to do this too using pastels from a photo I took of the traffic on Clare street.

more felt making :)

 With these two pieces of felt I layed the raw wool down in the shapes of the car lights before felting it.

I also used embroidery threads and feathers to mix in with the felt.

I used colours of car and street lights in these pieces.