Painting...

This is the continuation of Lindsay's wall painting, he decided to paint more than one figure to create a scene. It is now decided that we are going include the painting as part of our final piece.

This is one of the garments that we dipped in wax. It was then painted in different shades of blue to highlight the folds and to give it a kind of "mouldy" look. The blue also fits the painting and is how we plan to paint the clothes for the final piece.

Wax and Plaster Clothes

This image shows the effect that wax had on the clothes. It proved very successful as the was allows you to mould the clothes into certain shapes while it is still drying even enabling the items of clothing to stand up on their own. Our next plan of action is to practice painting into these garments in preparation for the clothes we will actually include in the final piece.

These images show the effect that plaster has on the clothes. We think that the textures are interesting and show age and wear which is what we are aiming for. However, these pieces are very hard to shape. For now wax looks like the most hopeful way of hardening the clothes.

The deconstructed chair, reconstructed as the Old Guitar.

This is the finished guitar complete with strings.

Through out the process of making it we only used the wood from the chair, nails, screws and string. We also managed to find the back of the chair to use as a decorative guitar neck which was made sturdier by sawing a chair leg in half and screwing both the halves together.

We decided that even though the guitar wasn't going to be played the strings were necessary because without them there can be no music and therefore the blind guitarists passion isn't in the piece.

PVA'd Clothes. Interesting.

Clothes Experiment

As we intend to use clothes in our final piece it seemed sensible to practice making them hard. The clothes were mixed with PVA glue to make the solid and then put on a "washing line" for them to dry. We are thinking about working into these with paint.

While searching the studio again we came across some blue fabric and are considering the idea of constructing our own garments from this by working it around a manikin, then when the clothes have been hardened it will look as though the wearer is invisible.

Painting Workshop

This is a painting that Lindsay produced on the wall during the paint workshop on the 6th. It shows a homeless man from around Huddersfield and is done in the style of Picassos "Blue Period". It is undecided as of yet whether this will be included in our final reconstruction.

"The Old Guitar"

This is the start to our "Old Guitar" using two seats of the chair to create this basic body shape and three chair backs placed on top of each other to create the depth. We are considering using either 2 or 4 legs for the neck and plan on shaping the tuning pegs out of the wooden "bars" of the back of the chair.