Thursday, October 30, 2014

No Pain No Gain

     I'm stuck in the looooooong and tedious process of applying silver leaf to the legs of a chair. It's slow because silver leaf is painfully delicate, but it's looking great so far.
     I'm making a grandfather-style table clock at my RISD class. It's very circle based and is going to be made of bass wood. My mother keeps telling me I'm doing the wrong things with wood, when in fact I'm learning from a professional, and she studied photography.
     I've been diagnosed with pretty bad tendinitis in my right hand so I'm trying to take it easy, which is, ironically, not very easy.
     I've made a lot of progress on my recycled material and paper maché chair. I have started building up the form and securing it with hot glue, whilst filling the gaps with home-insulation. I'll paper mache over the whole thing when I'm done.
     I started one other project in which cardboard rolled into tubes and stacked vertically should, when all combined, support the weight of a human being. I may attempt to align this project with an assignment that is given to all RISD freshman in their foundation year: make a chair out of cardboard that can fit or fold into a 24 inch box, and must support their weight through an hour of critique.