Pylon Jewellery

Although I am now working with rusty metal I wanted to put up some ideas I have developed from my pylon work. I had this idea of using acetate to create one of my little sculptures. I printed one of my photos of the pylons onto the acetate and cut and folded it into shape. This is really nice because the acetate is see through so all the lines overlap just like the intersecting lines of the pylons themselves.This also mean that when you shine light through the acetate it creates some very beautiful shadows.I have now finally decided that I am definitely going to make jewellery for my final exhibited work so here is an illustration of how I could possibly make a neck piece based on pylons.I then made another 3D piece to experiment with how it could be worn.I also made a simple necklace. I like it but I do think it would be more interesting in 3D form or possibly with layers and layers of shapes.

More Rusty Stuff

Last week I created a few digital images combining my photos of the rusty metal with my photos of Port Talbot steel works.

To see more of my digital images go to:
http://hduncanphotography.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/rusty-industry

I wanted then to develop these ideas and hopefully apply an image to the metal so I made a stencil to print with.
I then started by printing my stencil onto my photos of rust.
And finally I had a go at painting the stencil onto some of the rust itself.

Going Rusty

If you follow my photography blog you may have already seen that I finally forced myself to make a decision on where to go to for Uni.

I’m going to Hereford!
Yes, later this year I will be on the Contemporary Applied Arts course there.

You may have also seen my photos of rust which I am using in my current project.
Here is a development of my earlier pylon fashion illustrations:

Pylon Patterns

Sculptural Developments

My lecturer was very kind to give me a sheet of pewter to play with. It was very flexible so I was easily able to recreate my paper sculptures out of it.I’m really pleased with how I’ve developed my work but the problem with these sculptures is that they don’t always want to stand the right way up by themselves!I’ve also been playing with copper tape recently (yes, the kind you use to keep slugs away from your plants) and I had this idea of sticking it in strips onto cartridge paper and then making more paper sculptures out of it. I actually love the lines this created on the sculpture.Copper tape is actually really fun to make things with. Check out these sweet crumpled copper earrings I made a little while ago.

Bottle of Words

Finally got round to photographing these bottles I filled with words for my last project based on dyslexia.

Playing with Paper

Today I have been playing with paper. I’ve been making little paper sculptures based on the shapes within the electricity pylons and the structures I saw at Port Talbot steel works. I have also been influenced by my mother’s ceramics – Julie Brunskill.

These are just rough pieces – they look a lot more interesting in these photos than they actually are – but hopefully I will be doing more with the designs over the next week or two.

Electric Illustrations

If you follow my photography blog you will already know I’ve recently been taking lots of photos of electricity pylons. I have just started my final project for my Foundation Art course for which I have chosen the theme Industrial and Urban Landscapes.

I am interested in looking at the industrial architecture, decay of abandoned buildings and machinery and how the urban aspects combine with nature.

My interest in this subject started with electricity pylons. I have always been fascinated by them. When travelling to see family I look out of the car window watching the pylons “walk” across the land, their wires a network connecting each place to the next.

Today I was really pleased with these collage fashion illustrations I did using cut up pieces of one of my photographs of a pylon. A big inspiration for these was Serdar Bozok’s beautiful collection “Power Pylon“.

Broken

This is the result of one of the ceramic pieces you saw, in the process of being made, in my last post. It was meant to be a large bowl filled with words but, as with many things in life, it simply did not work the way it was meant to. Having said that I am still pleased with how it turned out. In a way the fragile broken pieces were a more appropriate representation of the nature of dyslexia.

Dyslexia

I still haven’t decided where I’m going for Uni – just to keep you up to date.

Anyway, I have recently been working on a project called Deconstruct – Reconstruct. I chose to look at the deconstruction and reconstruction of words, specifically the nature of dyslexia. Here are some experiments I have done in ceramics.