Sculpture

50 - Iron wire ball

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 4:17pm

The material is black iron annealed wire, 16 standard wire gauge, soft, and satisfying to bend between finger and thumb.

5067 reads

49 - Paper cube

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 4:15pm

A cube that can be made by hand from a square of paper.

7522 reads

48 - Black p.v.c. sphere

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 4:09pm

This is in fact the underside of object 14, but showing the smoothness and precision possible by vacuum forming p.v.c. sheet over an accurate mould.

5934 reads

47 - Aluminium foil cube

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 4:02pm

Made from a used, disposable catering aluminium plate, part formed by hand, part by soft hammer and wooden block, the foil forms a box with satisfying rigidity, with a combination of sharply produc

4762 reads

46 - Routed M.D.F.

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 3:58pm

Powered machinery such as routers or spindle moulders are common equipment in the construction and furniture trades, but can often be found in Art School workshops, particularly where picture frami

5207 reads

45 - Cut paper sphere

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 3:53pm

Using a pattern printed onto cartridge paper, sections are carefully cut using a scalpel.

168058 reads

44 - Plaster sphere

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 3:48pm

A reasonably accurate sphere can be made easily by hand from wire mesh (chicken wire), scrim and plaster.

6870 reads

43 - Cement cube

Submitted by plindley on 17 November 2009 - 3:46pm

Inexpensive, and mixed with sand immensely strong, cement is a useful casting material that unlike plaster can be used for work to be situated out doors.

5861 reads

42 - latex sphere

Submitted by plindley on 16 November 2009 - 5:29pm

Cast using the same plaster mould see slide as object41, see slide,and object etc the technique is to fill the mould entirely, allow the outer “skin; to thi

15129 reads