User:Jeanine Verloop

I L L U S T R A T I O N D E P A R T M E N T

Making is Connecting

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Why I make

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Technique

Historical technique

For my historical technique I chose to use clay. I really like working with clay, I can fully control the material and manipulate it the way I need.

For my first example I made the ears.First I made each ear individually, later I composed them on a piece of wood. I wanted to make some kind of freaky 3D painting. Afterwards I sprayed them 3 times with this color. As finishing touch I used varnish.

Secondly I made the head with the frog coming out. My approach for this object was different. I didn't want to use a lot of clay, because it wouldn't dry as quick and the result would be really heavy. Therefore I used a base of styrofoam. I cut the styrofoam to the shape (head) I wanted en then build the clay on top of that. For the strings coming out of the head I used skewers with several tiny layers of clay. The clay dries up in a grey tone, I sprayed it clear white. They again I used the varnish.

The reason I liked the varnish is because it makes the clay object look less like clay.

Comparitive technique

Pushed to the limit

First experiment

I worked before with casting resin to harden a wooden surface. I found out the residue dried up in the cup and I could easily get it out. I stored that as an inspiration piece, now I wanted to look further what the material could do.

I started making little cups with color, without color. Mixed and unmixed. Because I was to enthusiastic to get the resin out of the cup I found out that you could make mineral shapes.

Stone

Online I saw many different applications of casting resin. The one that intrigued me the most was the tables with half wood, half casting resin. The polished feel of the resin and the rough wood seems like a combination made in heaven.

I wanted to try make something with the same feeling, rough and polished. I broke a stone from my parents backyard and made a mall for that. I made the mall from betonplex, wood with a coating, so the resin wouldn't attach to the mall.

It was a surprise tot the area where the resin and the stone touch, the two together made a crystallized structure. When the light hits it it looks really cool.

tights

It was really interesting to me how polyester hars could make something soft, really hard. The plan was to work with tights and make drinking cups out of soft material.

I made two different cups. By the first one I coated a plastic cup with casting resin. Then I put the tights over it and also covered the tights in casting resin. The second one I put on the tight and then the casting resin.

The resin took really long to dry. When it finally dried I couldn't get the tight of the cup without breaking the form it had taken. So unfortunately this experiment wasn't that succesfull. Now I am writing this I think it maybe would me possible with multiple layers of resin. So the form would be stronger than the plastic cup.