Thunder Kid
Project 4-Back
Tangible Intangibilities
(Project 4-Design 2 UNT)
Balsa wood mania! This project was really interesting and I got super sucked into it. From the beginning I was a little worried about if I could actually finish the project by the time given. Basically I worked on the project anytime I had night and day between work and school. I started with a pile of balsa wood and in one class seating glue every single piece I had even the tiny ones. Once I had this strange looking block of twenty something pieces of all shapes and sizes of balsa wood. I dug in with my X-acto knife and box cutter. Then I shaved away at this block throughout the whole weekend giving me leftover mounds of wood chips. Oh, boy was my room a mess I had to clean it twice that week. Just when I thought the going got tough. Then came the sanding part, which I was surprised took some time to smooth out all the rough edges. Once the form was smooth and complete I primed it with an off white. Then I had this bright idea to want to make it glow-in-the-dark, so I added a couple coats of the glow paint on top of the primer. Some of my original thoughts were to have everything intertwining or playing off each other. When I painted the sculpture I had the color wrap around the forms in ways that they would reconnect on the other side. The magical word that the sculpture represented was “Passionate”. I used reds, oranges, and blues to convey the word. Now the glow-in-the-dark part was cool I decided on doing strips that raced up the center of the piece to the tip with a few other part that glowed. In the end it turned out like I envisioned plus I highly enjoyed creating it so to me it was a complete success.
Project 4-Back
Tangible Intangibilities
(Project 4-Design 2 UNT)
Balsa wood mania! This project was really interesting and I got super sucked into it. From the beginning I was a little worried about if I could actually finish the project by the time given. Basically I worked on the project anytime I had night and day between work and school. I started with a pile of balsa wood and in one class seating glue every single piece I had even the tiny ones. Once I had this strange looking block of twenty something pieces of all shapes and sizes of balsa wood. I dug in with my X-acto knife and box cutter. Then I shaved away at this block throughout the whole weekend giving me leftover mounds of wood chips. Oh, boy was my room a mess I had to clean it twice that week. Just when I thought the going got tough. Then came the sanding part, which I was surprised took some time to smooth out all the rough edges. Once the form was smooth and complete I primed it with an off white. Then I had this bright idea to want to make it glow-in-the-dark, so I added a couple coats of the glow paint on top of the primer. Some of my original thoughts were to have everything intertwining or playing off each other. When I painted the sculpture I had the color wrap around the forms in ways that they would reconnect on the other side. The magical word that the sculpture represented was “Passionate”. I used reds, oranges, and blues to convey the word. Now the glow-in-the-dark part was cool I decided on doing strips that raced up the center of the piece to the tip with a few other part that glowed. In the end it turned out like I envisioned plus I highly enjoyed creating it so to me it was a complete success.