How To Hold the Lamp Shades Together

To keep the lamp shades in place I had to come up with some ideas. The idea is to use thread, ribbon or string to hold it together. These are some tests I did to show that this technique can be used for both paper and plastic. ( This technique does require a lot of time )

Testing the Lamp Shades

 This is what the lamp should look like when I am close to finishing it. I tested out the different combinations of paper and plastics to see what the shadows would look like. For the lamp shades I will use green and blue plastic and paper on the inside to create a shadow effect.

LampScape

For my first idea, I came up with a cityscape around a lampshade. I removed one of the copper rings and the actual lampshade which left only the lamp itself and one copper ring. The land/city scape I'm going to be creating is stuff I see on my journey. To make the land/city scape I am designing an outline of the tops of the buildings on a software called 2D design. Then I will measure the circumfrence of the ring and cut some plastic using a laser cutter to the right measurements. These are the images I am going to use:

 

Route of the journey

A way to plan out a journey is to put sections of a map on the wall and plan a route out using string. Adding in images of the places, names, roads and landmarks.

Sculptures in galeries

To get an idea of how my exibition wall will look like, Im have looked at the ways galleries would set out the paintings and the sculptures. They put sculptures on white blocks either in the middle of the room or next to the artists work.

Art Using Lights

My first idea for using lights is to paint the lamp base black or white, then add some drawings to the base of the lamp. The 3 colours of lights I might choose to circle around the base might be Blue, Green and Yellow.

For the lamps plug I am going to include it as part of the art work, this image inspired me to make use of the plug instead of only the lamp.

Shadow art is another thing I am going to look at which I will use on the lamp. To get this shadow effect I am going to remove the lamp shade material and replace it with plastic, then I am going to draw outlines of places I visit during my journey. Around the lamp will be white paper to show the shadows.
Above the lamp I am going to put black paper domed around the top and stab holes into it, this will make it look like the night sky.

Joan Miro - Mobiles

Joan Miro was a Spanish painter and sculptor. I have found some pictures of the mobile sculptors he has designed. These mobiles have inspired me to create my own mobile for my alternative sketchbook.

Lizzie Mary Cullen

Lizzie Mary Cullen's work is based in psychogeography and mapping urban landscapes. Her work inspires me because of the creative ways to redesign the way places look like. She uses Rapidograph pens all of her work, which means all of her art work is in Black and White.

Roa

Roa is a Blegian street artist from Ghent. He inspires me because of his imaginative ways to create amazing art. I am doing a lot of my art in black and white so I found his art great for idea's for my topic of travelling, so I am thinking of drawing Scottish animals such as a stag in good detail.

Ullapool

This is Ullapool, I arrive here on the Cal Mac ferry. Ullapool is a small town in the north-west of Scotland, but for me it's the start of a long journey to Inverness, Perth, Glasgow and finally Appleby. The landscape is very mountainous all around the town which has inspired me to draw Ullapool as it is quite a remote place.

Stornoway

 This is An Lanntair, an art gallery to show some local art in Stornoway. It is quite a new and unique building as it has an imaginative design which makes it a great building to draw.

 This is the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry which takes me from Stornoway to Ullapool.

These are some of the buildings and ferry in Stornoway that are historical, new and creative buildings. They have inspired me to draw them in pencil or fineliner to show the start of my journey from Stornoway to Appleby.

Florian Afflerbach

Florian Afflerbach is an architectural artist, he sketches buildings, streets and draws some of the insides of buildings. Afflerbach's work has inspired me because of the detail in each and every section of the buildings he has drawn, he has a great use of shading and tone in the shadows and windows of each building. This has given me the idea to draw some of the insides of buildings and draw some of the outside scenery during my journey.

Matthew Brehm

The first artist that has inspired me is Matthew Brehm, he does lots of sketches and detailed drawings of both buildings and natural forms, his work is based in many different countries. Brehm's work has inspired me because of his use of shading and detail in some complex buildings. His work will relate to mine because I intend to draw some of the features such as bridges and buildings that  I usually see on my journey from Stornoway to Appleby.