Workshop

This week i have been into the workshop to try and create plastic rings from the flowers above. The idea is to have each colour as a different layer so they are really 3D. I created the shapes at the top in clay and left them to go hard before create a vacuum of the shapes which will then be filled with resin. The shapes were only a couple of mm thick so the mould wasn't very deep so i have made a couple more bigger shapes in clay to develop. Once they have all been moulded i will add pigment to resin and fill the moulds. It is difficult to get the exact shape in clay and so some of the details had to be smoothed over. To get around this i have also emailed about using the laser cutter to cut acrylic, this way the shapes would be totally accurate.

Update: above are the thicker shapes i created which were really difficult to keep in shape but i have discussed with a technician and he agreed that using the laser cutter will be much more effective in terms of precision and time.