Red Collection

 

Over the summer I collected a number of red objects for a 'museum of colour' task. From these objects I created a range of outcomes based on the colour red, whither actually creating a copy of the red object or creating something else that is red. 

Leonardo da Vinci - Vitruvian Man

The Vitruvian man is a drawing created by da Vinci in 1490, the piece of work, which is, pen and ink, shows a man fitting his body into a square and a circle by changing the way his limbs are positioned. The image is based on one of the ten books on architecture written by Vitruvius, who was a Roman architect. In the book, which is on the proportions of temples, Vitruvius wrote “that the buildings should be based on the proportions of man, because the human body is the model of perfection, this is shown by the body, with its arms and legs extended fits into the perfect geometric forms, the circle and the square.”Many artists over time have tried to create a piece of art work based on this theory but not many have been able to create an outcome that has been largely successful as da Vinci’s, I decided to look at this piece of work for my life drawing references, the reason that I chose this image to look at was that it is one of my favourite drawings by da Vinci and I think that it is one of the best pieces of work that shows the proportions of the body. 

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Anatomy Drawings

 These are some of the drawings that I have done as research while looking at anatomy, figure and pattern.  

Colour Resin Samples

                            

These are my resin samples that I made in 3D.  To create these samples I first chose 3 of my red objects that I had collected over the summer holidays, after carefully considering my objects I then created a mould using the vacuum former. After the mould was created, I sprayed the whole thing with a silicon spray to make sure that the resin will be able to come out of the moulds, after spaying the moulds mix the resin with the chosen colour, pour the resin into the moulds and leave to set over 24 hours.

Ceramic Playing Cards

 These are playing cards I made using white clay and then drawing into the surface to form the numbers and letters also the hearts and diamonds. I come up with the idea of creating playing cards from my graphics work where I used the themes of the colour red and day of the dead. I chose to us the theme day of the dead because for my summer project I used zombie Disney princess. For the set of single cards I decided to make them look decayed so that they fitted with the day of the dead theme. 

Plaster Mould

For my summer project I had to collect a range of objects that were the same colour. I choose the colour red so I collected objects such as red scissors, thread, beads, broken jewellery, books and many more objects.

To create the plaster mould,I first decided what objects I wanted to use in my mould. I then rolled out red clay, ensuring there was enough clay left around the edges to create walls to hold the plaster. 

I collected my chosen objects, oiled them so that they would not stick to the clay whilst I was pressing them to get the mould of the object. After I completed embedding all of my objects into the clay, I made up some plaster and poured it into the mould and left it to set. When the plaster was dry, I removed it from the clay mould. I trimmed the edges, ensuring they were straight using the bandsaw.