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 )
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.
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:
