G F Smith - research for poster design

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GFSmith have been trading as specialty paper merchants from their warehousing and manufacturing base in Hull, East Yorkshire for over 100 years. 

GFSmith source, develop & manufacture some of the most unusual papers for the Graphics and Printing Industries, promoting new papers for a wide range of applications.

These range from simple business cards, to letterheads, folders, promotional brochures, report & accounts, greetings cards & packaging. Indeed wherever there is a need for paper there is a need for GFSmith. 

Research into other artists working with paper and nature.

These paper sculptures based on nature are done by jen stark who is a contemporary artist, who uses coloured paper for paper sculptures, he bases them on fractals, worm holes and other microscopic patterns in nature. The reason this artist stood out to me and he works with a very repetitive method that creates something so beautiful and intricate drawing the eye in. 

Playing with the nets.

Playing with the net shapes, was a necessary step for me to continue with my work. Once i decided upon the net approach i started experimenting with different styles, sketches of which are shown in my sketch book. I began building upon each of the nets, looking it the forms they were producing.

The above picture shows the variety of sizes i can use and how they can work together to build something. I am going to photograph my work at different stages and see how each image can change just by adding a few more cubes.

Trees are a wide variety of shapes anyway so my nets can form in many way possible. It is going with the same process that nature does. It grows and it changes in many different ways.

The above image shows how i can build out from the centre like branches grow out from the centre of a tree.

The above two models show experimentation with nets on a larger scale, how it grows. It was easier to start with the bigger nets and build up with the smaller ones. When doing my final piece i am going to build on this idea, making the above model more complex and intricate symbolising the beauty yet complicated systems which nature is.

Research into Nets

CUBE

PYRAMID

TETRAHEDRON

TRIANGULAR PRISM

I research into some simple nets that are possibilities to take further by multiplied and then making the sculpture.

Research Into Nature

I like the idea of using something small to create something big. However i need something to base this on. I like the idea on basing my sculpture on the process of trees. They are beautiful, expand and form in intricate yet bold ways. They also grow like my sculpture will. I plan to document the growth of the sculpture basing it on the growth of the tree. Here are some images of trees i could base my sculpture on;

Each of these trees are different yet they are based around the same process that is what i want to base my sculpture on.

Workshop Three

In workshop Three,  i experimented with the idea of building up my work, starting small then building up using the same idea of modelling.

I experimented with the different ways the models can be built up. I like the idea of building up and out and using the shapes against each other so it almost looks like just the one model. You could do this with almost any shape but i like the idea of using simple to make complicated.

Workshop Two

In workshop two, we started working on a larger scale, experimenting and seeing how larger paper can work and if it can work the same as it can on a smaller scale. I definitely found working on a larger scale more challenging.

I found the better results were formed when i didn't think about the result to much, and just played around seeing what the outcome turns out as, most times nothing really worked out however the occasional time something worked out and became an interesting form.