Along for the Ride (Project 3)

For my third project I went along with the theme of Along for the Ride. I brainstormed some ideas for this and came up with a lot of objects involved in movement. Then I started thinking outside the box about moments in life that you go along with. I came up with the idea of relationships that later lead me to the idea of a wedding dress.

My chosen medium was paper sculpture. Weddings are very detailed and so is paper sculpting. On Pinterest I saw a wedding dress made out of paper and cotton balls. It was a very basic design that I found a lot of freedom to work with. Of course, I went through Pintrest and found references. :)

Through looking through the book The Art and Craft of Paper Sculpture, I learned ways to cut paper to work with shadows.  This project contained a lot of mess ups and restarts because I had no idea what I was doing.  I have cut paper many times but never in the fine detail needed for this project. I enjoyed this project but do not see me working with many paper sculptures in the future.  Not only is it too time consuming for this class, it is also very tedious and requires that you do not have many breaks from it.  There is no good stopping point when working on this project because messes are made and supplies takes a while to get out everyday.

The halfeway point and the final piece. The base of the dress is a basic flower turned upside down.  I learned how to make the simple flower on a YouTube video.  It doesn't get much simpler than that. :)

 The topic that is most easily seen in this piece is texture.  Since the dress is 3D and all the paper is layered, the dress looks extremely realistic and textured.

Along for the Ride

Medium: Paper, Paper and more Paper

Allie Snyder

October 7, 2013