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Taking both the Cicular flower head and the circlular model I have simply clustered together a variety of different sizes circles made from different thicknesses of paper. This images shows a very messy draft of what this idea could develop into. While arranging the circles together I did notice the similarities with another natural form, being honeycomb. You can see the similar designs between both photos. The way the circles are clustered together in group is the same way honey inter-locks together. 

Natural Form

Alot of the experimental work i have been doing have some similarities with the natural form of leaves. I have been using strips of paper and then twisting them above and below one another to create definitions of shapes.

 These examples of flowers could give me a good base for my final sculpture design. I like the way this bottom image give the impression of cones all interlinked together to form the circular flower head. I saw a exampled of a previous students work from last year, and their paper sculpture was very similar to this, I do like this style but I feel creating a load of cones will be very tedious and i need to design something i will want to keep working on. 

This model i cam across while looking for examples of circular forms is such a beautiful but simple design. I particularly like the way you can see through the middle, If i designed a number of small models like this then I could hang them all at different heights just like the example I found of a English company "Lladro" They don't use paper for their hanging sculptures but use ceramics. The image below is a stunning example of their work. 

Akira Yoshizawa

Instead of just looking into paper sculpture design I have started to investigate the paper technique of origami. I came across the artist Akira Yoshizawa whose work you can see below, the Japanese artist is considered to be the grandmaster of origami. According to his estimations he has created over 50,000 models which have all been published in his 18 books. Yoshizawa uses a number of folding and bending techniques which include the 'wet folding' method. This technique is when the paper is dampened before folding, letting the folder create a much more rounded and sculpted look. This was considered by many to be the paradigm shift of sorts that allowed origami to become the artform that is has become today. ♥

Elodole Beregszaszi

After the first workshop with Richard Sweeney I was inspired to start looking at other paper sculpture artists for a different form of inspiration which I could include into my own designs. I came across this spectacular artist Elodole Beregszaszi. The London based paper artist-engineer uses interesting compositions with the paper and includes light into some pieces of his work. He quoted "I am in love with paper,making it cutting it folding it embossing tearing sculpting....you get the idea ". ♥

Workshop One 24.1.11

This was my first Skills workshop which I started to experiment with paper by simply folding, cutting and blending into a number of different forms. Richard Sweeney showed us how to fold and develop a single piece of paper into shape form with depth and body without the use of glue or adding any extra paper into the shape ♥