CARDBOARD MAKER

I wanted to get making right away,  so scavenged the only material I could get my hands on abundance of: cardboard.

Three whole boxes were left abandoned next to the bins in college, so I took them and a tube of UHU into my studio space and just started to translate my 2D illustrations into reliefs.

Not the sculpted forms that I wanted to make (a feathered, textile bird, a wooden house, clay moon) but this was a quicker way of producing props/models.

It also solved my problem of being torn between 3D and my 2D drawings. Since getting all that feedback on my roughs with people telling me to carry on drawing, I wanted to feed a bit more of a drawing practice into the model making (e.g. line, shape, character), which I attempted through the rough cardboard chopping and sticking paper eyes to the Raven.

Since I'll only be working in 2 colours you also won't be able to see the brown of the cardboard so there's no point wasting time with painting the props.

I AM REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS BIRDCAGE! Made using a metal bottlecap and wire - SO EASY. It's messy and rough but I think that works. My mum described it as 'daintily jagged'. I do love an oxymoron!