Felt making

 

Tennis ball wraped in felt. In retrospective i could have added more felt and have been less delicate with it.



laying down the first layer of felt

 after the various colours have been layed down

 water is then sprinked over the felt and the felt is patted down

 then its wrapped up . The water is rolled out of it

 the end result is the felt is mashed together although the felt itself is still damp. After it was dried in the drier i was left with this horrible thing.

the tennis ball felt wound up with a handle. A happy little accident

The bacon looking thing was another attempt at felting. It was wrapped around a tube. Once again i could have put a ton more felt onto it.
Will update this post with the photos of the bacon tube finnished. Which one can slightly see on the panda mask above.

geometry and lollipop sticks

looking at making celtic patterns 

an i dea came to me to use the celtic pattern to make a circle

playing with lollipop sticks by placing them on top of each other and changing the angle at which it face ever so slightly each time.

to twists going different directions put together

square

hexagon 

Where am i going next? Well i have been inspired by the Hoberman sphere and want to learn the secrets to it

Also more interesting I found the following 

geometric experiments investigation

doodling in an organic but geometric pattern

changing the shapes that are connected to each other

connecting up 12 points to each other entirly and hi-lighting the triangles that appear.

impossible triangle star

Rebuilding the 5 way perception cube



using grooves to slot the pieces together

this was the result

it can be flattened down and folded back out

the pieces put together

the pieces before they are put together

 

the pieces with the background edges cut off in order to make the five way perspective cube or what i thought was the 5 way perspective cube.

Painting it was a disaster. As i realized there were over lapping areas.And i would have to redesign.

  cI also made a hexaflexagon necklace