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'TRASH' in pot

Here is my creation in full image, just the way I had planned it in my mind to look like. I am really happy with the end result as it had taken a lot of effort and time to collect the leaves, cut them, stencil out the letter forms, photograph them and finally use around 10+ glue-stick packets. The end result helps me feel like it was all worth it!

'TRASH' Design

CUT WITH A CRAFT KNIFE...

This is some of the workings out and finished letters from the word 'Trash' I am designing from our exhibition layout... "One Man's TRASH is a Designers Treasure. It is all completely handmade using real leaves that I collected after some gardening at the weekend. It just goes to show how a simple reusable material can be manipulated and designed to portray such a strong message.

Bamboo and Sticks to follow...

I attached a piece of bamboo and some sticks I had gathered and bought to help hold up each letter in the plant pots full of soil. This would not only help show them off but will also keep them upright and sturdy against the weather conditions etc.

Stencil of 'TRASH'

This is a start to the word 'Trash' which I will be creating as part of my group exhibition on Tuesday 7th December. I have used completely recycled cardboard. I drew a Rockwell typeface onto the cardboard using a pencil and continued to cut it out using a craft knife. This is the initial stages of a huge handmade production using leaves as the main media.

The making of 'TREASURE'

This weekend I was busy trying to create my much anticipated 'reverse graffiti' piece for my big exhibition coming up on the 7th December 2010 in Belfast. First, I made a stencil of each letter of the word, cut it out and measured to scale for the backing boards to be made. The typeface 'Rockwell' was suggested as it is big, bold and would have a fun serif to experiment with. 

THE MAKING OF THE BOARDS...

After I measured out each letter by its height and width I decided to make four pieces of board to put two letters of the word treasure onto each of them. *It was handy that their was 8 letters in the word to do this* Each letter width was alittle different but they tallied up to: - 24" in height
                       - 25" in width


Therefore, altogether the final piece as a whole will be 24" in height and 178" in width.....This will be close to 15 FEET!!!!


This process was NOT fun to make in minus temperatures but was well worth it in the end.

So, this is the next step I took to make the 'reverse graffiti' technique. I stuck down each letter as I'd planned and photographed each board to make sure they measured as I had hoped!! RESULT!!!

THE NEXT DAY!!!!

OKAY, so my plans didn't go as straight-forward as i had hoped!! The boards I had initially cut up didn't work well with the power hose and some couldn't even get 'clean' enough to see the letter I had stencilled!!  

I had to resort to Plan B and use the boards I had cut up which were less dirty! >>>>

After having to fight with the hose, soaking me with water and battling through minus temperatures AGAIN!!! ....I finally received the results I had hoped for!! I am pleasantly surprised at how accurate the power-hose let me draw the letters as straight as they came out......the practice with those first boards and my freehand 'Reuse' design a few weeks ago really paid off!

THE POWER HOSE I USED

THE VERY ACCURATE POWER GUN IN QUESTION :)

Stop-Motion Experiment

 Today I made some random stencil letters out of old scrap paper. I liked to play about with the size and shape of the letter. I also loved the idea of making a stop-motion type experiment by taking a lot of images of the word REUSE moving into many different ways.