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Design & illustration

Making a Block Repeat.

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This is the 2nd of a series of tutorials which described creating a simple block repeat pattern using a pink flower.

52 - Red metal box

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

11 - Hardwood sphere

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Assorted, reclaimed hardwoods including mahogany, beech, ash, oak and ebony are glued randomly together and then turned on the lathe. See video.

31 - Clear acrylic box

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Clear acrylic offers an effective and relatively simple way of exploring the idea of containment, or of separating the viewer from an object.

53 - Pool ball cube

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

23 - Angle iron cube

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Easily cut by hand and filed to size, each of the 12 lengths can easily be MIG welded, and then finished by grinding.

40 - Plaster ring cube

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Plaster casting can often suggest a solid, bulky, physical kind of sculpture, where the cast is a facsimile of an original, often modelled in clay.

Seperating a Flower from a Background

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This is the 1st of a series of tutorials which described processes involved, from selecting an element from a photograph (in this case seperating a flower from a background) to creating various typ

36 - Laser cut acrylic sphere

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The ability of the laser cutting process to cut lines of very narrow width, enables components to be fitted with very close tolerances, while producing delicate parts that might not withstand the s

02 - Coloured acrylic cube

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The coloured acrylic of this piece consists of those scrap pieces found around the machines in the workshop that have been used to shape the components of student work, over a period of approximate