YUM CEREAL!

I have had my fair share of cardboard now I think because technically cereal boxes are made out of cardboard. I figured that cereal boxes would be easy because I wouldn't have to buy anything and everyone has cereal. I didn't want to break the boxes down, I wanted to keep the box's shape so I tried many different approaches on what to build and finally I decided on this. I hot glued all of the tabs together, I really liked the design that it made so I figured that I would just keep building on it. So I got more boxes and added them in the empty spaces between the others. It made this sort of sun shape or a burst of color if you will. I did flatten out a few boxes to make a back so that the boxes would hold together better because my original plan was to hang it which now I think I should have stuck with that idea. But when I saw that it could stand on its own I didn't want to let that feature go to waste. Then then I trimmed off the extra on the edges and last minute I decided to put the circle in the middle to cover the flaps on the inside. In the end I was satisfied with my work and I haven't eaten cereal in days!

NO MORE CARDBOARD!!

Finally no more cardboard! This is my finished product of my cardboard pecan. I know it's not perfect but I think I did a pretty good job, but then again I'm not a perfectionist. This one does look a lot better than my first one though. I finally got all the edges together which was the hardest part and the corners met at the ends, not perfectly but I think it looks the way ends of pecans look. I know it is a little boxy but I tried as hard as I could to get it more rounded. Then finally I crinkled up craft paper and put over the top to give it a more pecan like texture. Overall I am proud of my work!

Safari

translation, rhythm

drinking glass in my kitchen, 5:30 pm Wednesday

rotation/translation, texture

my couch, 11:30 pm Wednesday

translation, rhythm

calinder, 7:45 pm Wednesday

reflection, pattern

sambrero, 12:00 pm Tuesday

translation, rhythm 

whicker basket, 9:00 pm Wednesday

translation, texture

blanket, 11:00 pm Wednesday

reflection, pattern

art piece in living room, 3:45 pm Wednesday

rotation/translation, pattern

decoration in living room, 4:00 pm Wednesday

Human Dots

For my human dot pictures I used two of my dot projects from the newspaper photos. I just cut out giant black dots with the same proportion as the little dots and taped them to my roommates hands. (can you tell they enjoyed having their pictures taken?)

Cardboard Cardboard and more Cardboard!

We were assigned to pick an object and make it completely out of cardboard. My object was a little pecan and you would think a pecan that's easy because that is what I thought...wrong! My original plan was to just take four pieces of cardboard and cut them into football shapes, then glue the sides and the end corners would just meet. I also though about making some sort of under structure so it would be stronger but I could not figure out how so it didn't happen. That failed because I could not quite get all my pieces the same size and the ends weren't long enough so I couldn't them to come together. So my solution was to extend the ends but the cardboard I chose was two thick and would not bend very well or glue very well. Long story short I'm starting over, I have a better idea of what to do this time so we will see how it turns out.