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Paper, panels and priming

PAPER, PANELS AND PRIMING This sheet will tell you how to stretch paper and prime panels ready for working on

1. Stretching paper2. Priming paper

54 - Cast aluminium sphere

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Creating an object in separate components to be combined later can often help to overcome technical or production problems, see paper sphere,

53 - Pool ball cube

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An attempt to combine the cube and the sphere in one object.

52 - Red metal box

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Much good quality material can be sourced from items already made, used and then discarded.

51 - Wire sphere

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Made with the same type of wire as object , the sphere is quickly built up using soldered curved sections with a radius of 6-cm.

50 - Iron wire ball

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The material is black iron annealed wire, 16 standard wire gauge, soft, and satisfying to bend between finger and thumb.

49 - Paper cube

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A cube that can be made by hand from a square of paper.

48 - Black p.v.c. sphere

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This is in fact the underside of object 14, but showing the smoothness and precision possible by vacuum forming p.v.c. sheet over an accurate mould.

47 - Aluminium foil cube

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Made from a used, disposable catering aluminium plate, part formed by hand, part by soft hammer and wooden block, the foil forms a box with satisfying rigidity, with a combination of sharply produc

46 - Routed M.D.F.

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Powered machinery such as routers or spindle moulders are common equipment in the construction and furniture trades, but can often be found in Art School workshops, particularly where picture frami

45 - Cut paper sphere

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Using a pattern printed onto cartridge paper, sections are carefully cut using a scalpel.

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