I made this wall piece using the space behind my desk, I hope to turn it into a mini instillation experiment before going home for Christmas! I had been trying out different methods and colours and stuff with my crumpled paper for awhile and I wanted to turn it into something... bigger! (Macro even). I had all these loo roll holders hanging around (I sort of collect them, it drives everyone crazy 'coz I tend to give out if I find them in the bin :P hehe), lets face it when you're an art student you absolutely never know when things like this could come in handy! I used these loo roll holders as my main veins in my piece (if you look closely at the back of a leaf you'll notice how the bigger veins stick out but the littler ones you can only see) and I used my crumpled paper for the inbetween veins and made it BIG, its the size of the wall: (which ok, isn't so big but it's big enough)
I began by painting like 6 or 8 A1 sheets different greens and different speckles and stuff.. (really trying to get in touch with my inner 'nature').
Then I used my hot glue gun to merge all the loo roll holders together and stuck them to the wall and all the paper pieces were brought into the equation.
It was difficult trying to get the paper to stay on the wall so unfortunately there was some hot glue involved.
I'm happy with how my little piece turned out... However.. It does rather resemble a leaf of cabbage for some reason :/ but I still like it :)
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