Monday, August 30, 2010

Working on Leaves of the Tree of Life  「生命の木の葉っぱの制作について」

Thread pattern drawings of Dead Leaf Butterfly and Mandrill (type of old world monkey)
糸で完成された喋喋とマンドリールサルの絵の生命の木の葉っぱ

On the back of 16' leaves' that I have been making for the December installation piece, I have decided to draw in representatives of various families of living creatures with thread. Above photo shows couple near completed pieces.

Working process is simple. First I made larger scale sketch of creatures from a reference book onto a paper towel size paper and cut out the form. Finally after making cutouts for all the pieces, I piled onto floor checking to make sure of variety, and to have the form of creatures match the form of each, different leaves. And then I glued on the thread. Generally, two lanes of thread were applied for each contour and for visual effect, I have tried to keep the thread as continuous as possible.

12月にブラックフィシュで展示するインストレション作品の一部に16の生命の木の葉っぱを
つかう予定でいます。これら葉っぱの完成に葉っぱの作品の裏のほうに様々な生物の絵を糸で描きました。なるべくなら種類豊かに色んな類を選びました。上の写真がそうです。

これらの制作はかんたん。まず、本から生物を選びそれをペーパタオルの大きさの薄紙に大きく線の形として描く。そして切り、選んだ「葉っぱ」の上におく。その形の周りにウールの糸を塗り、紙を取る。残りの中の形は感覚で描けれる。線の美しの効果のためそれぞれの形に二列ほどの糸をまき、ましそして、なるべくなら、切り目を少なく一本線でほとんど描きました。下の写真がそのプロセスです。


Drawing the contour of Black-tailed jackrabbit. Afterward the outline is cut off with scissor.
ウサギの形を本から線の形として大きく描いているところ。形を鉛筆で描き終わったら、はさみで形の線を切りとります。


Checking the cutout of Tadpole Shrimp with the shape of this 'leaf'.
おたまじゃくしエビの形と「葉っぱ」の形を調整しているところ


Part of 16 creature cutouts on various leaves
16種類の描いた生物描の一部とそれぞれの葉っぱ


The threaded leaves 
糸で生物の絵が描かれている生命の木の葉っぱたち


Now, all I need to do is cover them with layers of liquitex varnish.
あとはリクイテックスのニースで仕上げるだけ。

2 comments:

  1. Looks interesting and exotic! I thought you were sewing the outlines on, I but I see that you are gluing them.

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  2. I don't have nimble enough fingers to do that Helen, so I took easy out, simply glue. It will be interesting to see how these would look next to Mario's pieces.

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