I’ve been working since 7am this morning on my 3D design project, and I think I’m making some headway with it. At first I was making a headpiece, which was very pretty and I was really looking forward to making it. However, I was told to change that 3 weeks into the project, so I had to start from scratch. Why did I have to change it? Simply because of my university application. If I want to get into uni then it is better that my design is geared towards a fine art solution which can then go into my portfolio, since I am applying for the Fine Art course. This has meant me going back to the drawing board, and trying to come up with a 3D piece that fits into what I’m doing on the rest of the course. This also applies to my Creative Textile course.
I got a book on Frank Stella from the library on Friday, which has really helped me. I was totally stumped as to how to make a 3D piece into something like a painting. I have been playing about with different things for the past 2 weeks, but without actually seeing some examples, it was really hard to visualise anything. The book was a godsend, and very inspirational. Frank Stella’s work is more like construction on canvas. Here are a few samples of his work:
As you can see his work is very colourful and leaps right out of the canvas. His work has given me lots of ideas. So today the ideas finally started flowing. I have to create a drawing, and based on those drawing I must create 4 prototypes from the following:
- Paper
- Card
- Wire
- Mixed Media
I already have some wire and paper pieces in class, but I managed to create some more at home. I also created some card pieces today, but first here is a drawing I’ve been playing with:
There are lots of overlapping materials here. First of all I created a sample ‘canvas’. For this task I took a piece of copper wire woven material. It’s quite a thick ‘fabric’, but very jaggy and I’ve slashed myself several times on it! I then wove in 12 wire like sticks, then covered with wire mesh.
After that, I placed on several pieces I created to see how they fit together.
These are only basic ideas, but I really like where they are going. I have lots of accompanying drawings which I hope to get further mileage out of. I think it will be interesting to see where it ends up, when I finally get them onto canvas!





























