shimmying around with the paper hexagons

building up my piece

assessment

I really like where my honeycomb experiments are going so have decided to incorporate them with the light, like i used when looking at the lillypad. Tomorrow I intend to go to Wilko's or WHSmith to collect coloured papers and tissues to create a larger 3D model of the honeycomb structure. I think with a light inside the piece it could create some really nice patterns on the walls and using coloured paper would give off some delicious tones. Cutting shapes into the paper to let the light shine through is definitely a possibility which i will explore.

Honey comb experiment2

further development and experimentation of the honeycomb idea

wood to paper back to wood

Here are my interpretation of wood grains from a cross section of timber. I created these by measuring identical strips of paper and tearing these down the centre so I had numerous strips of paper, with one rough and one clean cut. Then by eye arranging them into circles, with roughly a similar increasing diameter, this was quite difficult. I think the outcome isn't exactly mind-blowing but creates a nice effect, especially the torn edges where the paper is light and fluffy, complete opposite of the other paper examples I have created.

more paper nature experiments

Waterlillys are beautiful plants which grow together and show obvious repetition. I deicided to look closer at a lillypad and the veins of the leaf are very structured and have repetitive shapes. I can see a resemblence to the honeycomb by looking in depth at the leaf and I feel like my paper honeycomb experiment went well so now I will try with Lilly pads.  I can just imagine how awesome loads of these shapes, each differing in size, hanging in motion on a mobile would look.

Here are some outcomes from my water lilly paper session. I found the task very time consuming and would further develop this by scanning my drawing and exporting it into a c.a.d. software where I could duplicate designs and cut out using the laser machine.

experimenting with nature

I enjoyed creating the honeycomb pieces with paper so I decided to create a spiders web, being drawn to it from my moodboard. This piece doesnt require much skill but it can create some interesting light patterns because of the of negative space.