show me the way to san jose?

Jillian, Chance and I decided that our globe would be covered with maps and zippers. We've been working on a it for a few days now, and I think we've come pretty far. As of Tuesday, we have about 3/4 of the globe covered with our maps which are connected with zippers. I'm a little concerned with the structure of our globe...it's not as sturdy as I would like it to be...but hopefully to remedy that we're going to shellac it once everything is finished to create a harder coat for the outside of the ball.

=P for cardboard chairs

Sooooo...I'm not a really big fan of making cardboard chairs... 

Because I decided to make my chair at home, it took a lot more time and effort than I really wanted it to take up. I spent the majority of the weekend cutting out the cardboard pieces and fitting them together. The actual putting together the chair part of the process was done by Sunday night...but the painting and stuff took me a couple of extra days. I decided to make a rocker-ish chair (not a chair for rockers, but a chair that rocks...) It actually doesn't rock right now because structurally I'm pretty sure that the chair would fall apart if you leaned back on it too far. I'm really quite concerned about the creaks that it makes also when I sit on it. 
The design of the seat part of the chair is also not really comfortable. I think it would have been better if I had put the joining pieces closer together than what I have them at so far.The one thing that I really liked about making the chair was the paper carvings (not sure what else they're called) that I did for the detailing of the side of the chair. As of 2pm on Wednesday, I'm only 3/4 done with them for one side of the chair and I'm not sure if I'll even be able to finish it by tomorrow's critique. I guess we'll see how it goes. But I really enjoyed the painting and design part of making my chair. I wanted to do some kind of Asian wave thing with some lotus blossoms at the bottom. My first idea turned out to be way more intensive than I could handle and in order to make the due date, I had to modify my design. Hopefully I'll be able to finish in time with this design...but I like it much better than I did with the first one.

working with wire

i have never been great seeing things as a whole. i always see bits and pieces. being able to create a wire sculpture, for me at least, was very difficult because you have to be able to know what your final product is. if i don't know what the final product needs to look like, i don't know how to create a piece that will be cohesive.

working with the wire took so much patience. i had to sit and twist and sculpt and create...and in the end i'm not that thrilled with what i came out with. i think that the process that i went through was good though. i drew my picture after i had already finished my wire sculpture. the wire helped me see lines and put together shapes that i hadn't been able to see before. it made me pay attention to countours rather than body parts.

i think that i really prefer to do drawings right now...creating a sculpture adds in another dimension that i'm not really comfortable with yet. but i guess it will just take some time to get used to the idea of creating a three-dimensional piece. i used to hate drawing too...so i guess things change.