More Display Work

I am starting to feel really confident about my display.  I have picked most of my final products and have started with the construction.  I have not glued anything together yet, I am still using tape because I will have to paint or stain the basswood before I can do so.  Above is a picture of my first tier of the Pagoda.  Tomorrow I will have to go get more chipboard to make the roof hangings.  I would like to wrap the chipboard in a colored paper.

Here is a picture of the first and second tier without the roof.  At each corner is where the bok choy will be placed.

This is an aerial view of how all three tiers look together without the roof.

This is an image of what the total construction will look like.  The pieces of foam board are acting at roofs.  Of course the final roofing will be curved as they are in my study models.

Display-Progress

As I began to work on some ideas for my display, I had to figure out where exactly the bok choy will sit on the display.  I first thought to have an opening on the bottom level and insert them in a rectangular cube with circle cut outs for each.  With this idea the bok choy would not really be displayed, so I thought to place them as columns surrounding the house.

I still may have to think of other ways to hold up the bok choy.  I was also thinking maybe to just place them directly up against the walls to really play off of them acting as true columns to the structure.  Another idea was to have the bok choy sitting in planters surrounding the house, as shown in the sketch above.  I also have to figure out what medium I want to use to show the vibrant colors displayed in Chinese architecture.

Display Model

Project 4 is to create a display for my bok choy.  Some of my intial ideas were to create a cylindar with circular inserts for the bok choy. I also thought of using a square shape.  I then began to think of how I could show the Chinese orgin of the vegetable.  I googled pictures of Chinese architecture. I found this building to be very intriguing.

I started to create the house with chipboard. I found the two-ply hard to work.  I also needed to make the model a little bigger.

After building my second model I found that the curved roofing was going to take some more attempts to see exactly how to manipulate the chipboard.  So far I think I have made some progress to coming to my final model.

Project 3 Final

My final presentation of project three was not as successful as I would have liked.  I moved away from the plastic that I was using at first and went with the shrink wrap.  Some of the comments that I received in class were that it was sloppy; I know that it could have been better, but I actually did think it through.  It was just that it needed more work and I needed to make more models.  I was not too familiar with the product I was using which presented the problem.  I used shrink wrap and punched holes in the wrap which sort of disappeared when I heated it.  I make a label and thought that vegetables can be pretty too so I added a bow.  All in all, what I have gained from this project is that more is better, well at least as far as models go. 

Project 3-Progress

Going off of the idea to make a bag for the bok choy with a sort of like insert, the first image is my attempt to do so.  I cut out a square from a plastic shower curtain and made the insert with chipboard for my model.  I punched holes in the chipboard to attach some pipewire to hold the bok choy in place.

The second image is the actual bok choy in the bag.  Once the bok choy was in the bag I decided the bag was too big for the vegetable.  I started to think of ways to make the bag smaller and came up with the idea of using shrink wrap.  The shrink wrap would be easily molded to the shape of the bok choy.  I also had the idea to punch holes in the shrink wrap to act as a drain for water when the bok choy is rinsed in the wrap.



My next dilemma is to create some type of label for the packaging and how exactly I will make the holes.