Revenge is Sweet cont.

Revenge is Sweet continued...

16.03.09 - Week 5

Say hello to my Mum's candles...

Say goodbye to my Mum's candles :) - She still hasn't noticed they're missing haha





23.03.09 - Week 6

The reveal..

Week 7 & 8

It doesn't look like a lot for 2 weeks work, but it took me ages to cut out... because I was trying to b as precise as possible, and also because I had to use the archemedian drill to cut out the counters (holes in the e etc) - and I have a massive blister on my right thumb from it :(

The plan is to somehow press/melt these into the surface of the apple.... I might colour them first though??

We only have 2 hours for the next lesson because Emma has a meeting to go to, so I'm not sure how much I will get done - I'm aiming to do quite a bit of the arrow (curl/bend etc) hopefully

BOARD UPDATE -

My dad thinks he's really funny. He is not. The yoghurt wasn't moulding so I figured I hadn't put enough on it SO i covered it in a whole yoghurt:

and I went back the next day to find no yoghurt left, but 2 small lumps of moss had been placed onto it. Har de har. I'm NOT stupid :) (I forgot to take a picture as I was a bit annoyed).

So I've given up on the yoghurt idea and have just left it down the side of my house to rot covered partially by a plastic bag... it's getting quite dirty *thumbs up*



UPDATE 27.04.09

Emma's 2 hour lesson - I got annoyed with soldering basically.

UPDATE 27.05.09

Not long to go before hand-in date (8th June! Eeek!) and I have been putting the final touches to my back board...

It has been sitting in the damp and dirt for just over 2 months now and so is a bit mankey :) and the nails have been rusting away quite nicely. Yesterday I got the chisel and hammer out to take off some of the square edges and roughen it up!

I added this vine I found in my hedge but no doubt it will be all dead by now so I guess I will have to get some out of my garden fresh for on the day!

I also added some dead grass which is wedged in underneath a section that I chiseled out but did not break off the board.

I rubbed it in some soil to make it a bit more dirty but when my dad was hammering another nail in it all came off! Haha... so I will have to rub it about again I spose. But I'm hoping my apple will look nice, clean and shiny in contrast to the (fake)old, tatty and filthy backboard. All I have to figure out now is how to attach it... oh I DO like to make things hard for myself :(

UPDATE 01.06.09

It was the last practical session today AND I have pretty much finished :) I even had a bit of time left to collect some samples

I basically had all the components of my panel, it was just putting them altogether... which is what I was most worried about. I had soldered the words onto some wire so that I could press it into the apple and the first word I did (sweet) I ended up getting a crack in the apple!

To attach it to my backboard I drilled 2 holes in my board(quite deep), inserted some wire (sharpening the ends to points) and then slowly pressed the apple into place. I was SO worried I was going to press too hard or something and my apple would just split in two halves, but it didn't thankfully.



Finishing touches!
I cut a leaf and stalk out of some green acrylic plastic and inserted it into the top of the apple.



Finished Panel!

Ta-da! It's finished!
I'm quite pleased with how its turned out... apart from how the words are stuck into the apple... it looks a bit pants from some angles... would want to try and press them in further but don't want to split my apple this late!

Now to press on with the written work/sketchbook...!

Typeface by Tasha cont.

Typeface by Tasha continued... (The other post was getting a bit long)

Yesterday I spent about 5 hours in the 3D workshop working on molds and letter stuff



Making the walls around M,C and V



Cut out the stencils for letters F and S



Extruded and cut F... into some interesting shapes. The curved F (above) looked really nice :)





The end section of the extruded S...



F and S in clay



Pouring the vinyl mold stuff in :)
I had to get on tip toes at one point hah

On Monday I plan to fill all the molds with wax so that I will have every letter in wax by the end of the day.... then I can start to photoshop the alphabet together :)

UPDATE 27.04.09

First thing Monday morning I went to the 3D workshop and filled the molds with wax :)



We had a slight timetable change which meant that I had a lesson from 10-12 instead of 1-4 so I left the wax to set and then went back to the 3D workshop later on.....



Mmmmm! How tasty do they look!? :)

Then began the task of melting the wax to fit in lollypop sticks..... I am so rubbish at it - Ben is the expert!!

To Be Continued.....

Appearances can be deceiving - Easter Special

So it was Easter Sunday yesterday, meaning easter egg time! :) (I also discovered I can't remember much of the Easter story... and I don't know why we have easter eggs, other than for an excuse for card shops and supermarkets to make money!?)

My mum says I'm too old for easter eggs now (although, she still bought me one hmn) but my Grandad has a different view thankfully :)

He is also known as Chocolate Grandad, not because he is made from chocolate (duh), but because when I was younger he used to take my brother, sister and I out every weekend and buy us 50ps worth of sweets (it used to buy a lot of sweets back then!).

So my Grandad asked me what kind of easter egg I would like, and I went for Creme Egg - a Cadbury classic! HOWEVER, yesterday I was presented with a different egg (dun, dun, duuuuun)!!

Now, who am I to complain? I'm trying not to be a spoilt brat, afterall, he still bought me an easter egg. 'You're older now so I didn't want to get you a kiddies one. This one looks more grown up', is what he said.

So this is the view I had when I first walked into the room and saw it...



Oooh, looks like posh packaging doesn't it?? (thats what he thought too) I was thinking 'oooh maybe it's a Thorntons egg?' because they sell them in Asda now don't they? and also.. 'Oooh I bet this will be nice, creamy, milky chocolate!'

Well..... No.

My grandad bought me a dairy free, nut free, gluten free, egg free(what the hell, an egg free egg?) egg.



I know, I shouldn't be upset or disappointed... but I kinda am. I haven't tasted it yet but what is the point of dark chocolate? 'To be healthy' you say? Easter is ALL about being unhealthy!

The box says: 'made with special care and free from cross-contamination' - I like a bit of risk with my chocolate! It's no fun if you can't get salmonella hah

My grandad said he didn't realise it was meant for someone with allergies, and said that he just thought it looked nice - DAMN YOU, PACKAGING DESIGNERS AT KINNERTON!

The moral of this story? .... don't put nasty, allergy free chocolate in nice packaging! Thankfully mum knows the way to a girls heart is Dairy Milk :) Very nice.

Happy Easter btw. I'm gonna be reading up on why we have easter eggs just to satisfy my mind.

Oh, and happy non-year anniversary to me...