I machined lots of overlapping lines in gold thread on a piece of lutradur 70 coloured it, zapped with a heat gun then added more layers of paint before cutting out cog shapes. The picture above shows the front and back of these shapes so you can see the colour difference. I decided I liked this effect so I tried adding the mock-ups of the moving shapes...
... and didn't like it at all. Maybe a different arrangement?
Maybe not. It is all a bit too solid compared to the background. In a last effort before packing up for the day, I grabbed some of the cog-shaped off-cuts of treated lutradur and put them on as the moving parts - they looked pretty good but I forgot to take a picture. So I am going to colour and stitch some more cogs and break them into pieces, so that the top layer becomes fragments, and will see how that looks. I have pretty much decided that I will make this piece to stand on a table and be seen from above, and have attached battens to the back for it to rest on. It could be adapted for wall-hanging but it is rather heavy.Cleaning the upstairs rooms may have to wait a few more days while I get this sorted.
3 comments:
Don't lose the impetus you have found! If I don't keep working once a problem has been solved I'm in danger of losing track of what I was aiming for. The Lutrador seems to be working admirably and looks really good. It's wonderful stuff and so versatile, I find. Looking forward to seeing more pictures as this work progresses - good luck.
Hmm. Tricky. The zapped lutrador has a kind of ethereal quality which does not relate to the precision of cogs etc. Outlining the pieces, or creating a mock "shadow" might help??? Give it a bit of bulk???
Anne, I can see what you mean. I have been doing some more work on this, trying to get them to look as if they have worn away/decayed.
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