Relief

Lupins

paper

7 x 5 x 1/4

The main idea of the piece is a flower field, full of lupins. For this assignment, we were instructed to make a relief. I chose paper flowers and tried to show them in forms and texture. Lupins are my Grandmother's favorite flower, and I've always been drawn to them so I decided to use them for this project.

I used regular sketching paper for the stems and flowers. I decided to use wet paper for the flowers to add texture. I used an Exacto knife to cut them out, and hot glue to hold everything down. My shades of paper differed a tiny bit, so I thought of using color, but I ended up not. I didn't use a lot of materials for this relief.

In the process, I had to figure out a way to attach the stems to the paper that could give the paper some support and structure. My first thought was some type of glue; more specifically hot glue. But I also knew hot glue was quite irritating to work with and left a lot of lines and mess. I experimented with superglue and spray adhesive, but neither worked, so I decided to work with hot glue despite its cons. The hot glue ended up working quite well. For accurate texture, I created my flowers by making a crumpled cracked look while my paper was wet. I then left them to dry and glued them onto the stems.