As of this week, no building has started yet. However, I went to the crafts section of Walmart last weekend (as we hadn't kept any leftover Halloween spiderweb material from last year) for lace, only to find tulle in such a perfect shade of off-white (my mom called it "champagne") that I got that instead. I'll have to fold it up a few times to get the right opacity, but it'll be worth it! Also, I went "acorn hunting" this afternoon, only to discover that we have no oak trees (and, by default, no acorns) in the woods behind my house. (Oops.) I did find some nice pinecones, though, and I picked up a lot of the azaleas that have fallen off our bushes in the past week or two. The willow branches above were also from my yard. I found plenty of nice leaves and flowers back there, but I don't want to pick them now, only to have them be dead two weeks from now when I'm ready to turn the project in. (That will come sometime after this week's, maybe even next week's, progress post. In the meantime, I have to figure out how everything will fit in the tulle.)
Sometime in the next week, I want to start building the veil. Since I wound up buying way more tulle than I actually needed (again, oops - but at least I have extra material for potential future projects), I have plenty to experiment with. The pinecones will be the most difficult, I think - they're spiky, and will require some *fun* maneuvering to avoid tearing the tulle. After the veil itself, the leaf/flower crown will be last - though I plan on using the willow branches to shape the base, so that the veil has something to attach to while I'm building it, I don't want to build the crown itself because just about everything in that crown except for a few things is currently alive and growing, and again, I don't want to collect it now only to have it die before it even gets used.
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We have officially started our second and final sculpture project of the year, as well as our second home project. It's due three weeks from tomorrow, which means I have a lot of work to do, especially since it's supposed to be a found object project - lots of material hunting ahead in the next week.
Unfortunately, none of this hunting has happened yet. However, I needed to update the blog, so I had to come up with something. A few weeks back, I had made a brainstorming page for this project (included as part of my last sketchbook assignment), and back to that page I went. It wasn't particularly hard to choose an idea among the 5-6 ideas that already existed - I have been fascinated with weddings and marriage for a long time, and last year I even used weddings as the theme to my "Drawing-A-Day" sketchbook assignment. I put the idea of making a veil on the page perhaps thinking of my "Wedding-A-Day" pages from Art II, and looking back on that page made me more attached to the idea. The sketch and explanation for my veil idea are pictured above. Though found-object sculptures are technically supposed to be made from just that - found objects - I'm cutting corners a little, and plan on using the material from those fake Halloween spiderweb things - its strands seem to stick to everything, so it shouldn't be too much trouble to stick various acorns, pinecones, and leaves to the veil. Unfortunately, there's one major roadblock - April/May isn't exactly Halloween season. If stores don't carry that material around this time of year, I'll probably just buy lace from a crafts section if the lace I have at home isn't enough to finish it. I also plan on making a "flower" crown (will be attached to the veil) out of various leaves and pine needles I can find in what's left of the "wilderness" behind my house, as using lace/Halloween spiderweb stuff means I really can't buy any other material for the project or it's not really a found-object sculpture. Since I just recently made a progress post, and so close to the end of the process, there is nothing really new to update on; no title selection yet either.
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