3 White Dots + Colours

The 3 white dots on the ground to the left of the front entrance of the school are to mark where the sculpture will stand, the parts for the sculpture will be laser cut next week.

The chosen colours for the sculpture are Red, Green and Blue. I like the idea of Red, Green, Blue as a combination, with red on one vertical side of the sculpture and Green on another and Blue for the seat, reasons are: you can make any colour out of RGB by varying the intensity of each one (this is how flat screen TV's work) I think this will lead to interesting colour mixes as you look through the holes in the sculpture when you walk by, and good colours in the shadows where the sun reflects off one surface onto another. Red was the winner of the popular vote so the biggest part of the sculpture will be red. The feet will be black.

The sculpture

Using the results of your votes I have designed the sculpture, the key features I have focused on are "including a bit to sit on" and choosing to use "curves" and "circles" with no "straight lines" or "squares". For the "secret stuff" I have hidden parts of the "school logo" in with the hands. The digital files have been sent to Gap Metal, so the parts for the sculpture should be made in the next few weeks, on Thursday I will be visiting the school to discuss the site for the sculpture and to decide on the exact colours we will use, the most popular colour in the vote was red.


The work will be made from four curved uprights with a flat central 'seat' (red in the pictures) section which passes through the lower curved sections to form three 'seat areas' each of the sections will be made up using the hands so of course they wont be solid they will be full of holes. I think that there will also be extra small groups of hands (not shown) bolted onto the main curved surfaces to provide more colour and detail. The fundamental geometry is based on three intersecting circles, every curve is an arc radius of exactly 1m.

Making models

I have been trying out some different ideas for the shape of the sculpture, these are some rough models made with cardboard and masking tape, next I will work on the computer to develop these some of the ideas in CAD (computer aided design). They will be virtual models in the computer.

Questions

I have posted some questions on the right side of the blog, I hope that you can help me by answering them, your answers will help me decide how to make the sculpture and what it will look like. One of the questions is - Should we include the school logo in the sculpture. These pictures will give you an idea of how the different parts of the school logo could be included, the Blue shapes are different bits of the logo and the Orange hands picture has bits of the logo cut out from the hand shapes, can you spot which bits of the logo have been cut out and which have not?

Workshop 2 at Black Dog studio

Today we had another workshop with 12 more Ocklynge pupils, it went really well and we created lots of new designs which in turn have given me lots of good ideas for the final sculpture.


I will start work on the design for the sculpture next week so keep checking this blog to see more images from the workshops and my ideas for the finished sculpture.

Workshop at the Black Dog Studio

Today we had our first workshop, It went really well with lots of good ideas and designs being produced by the class rep's, I will post some more images and talk more about the ideas next week, these pictures are a taster from today.