Suburban Stars: The Drawings

These are the images of the process I went through to create my final drawings for this project. I started by exploring the mediums of colored pencil and pastel. The image of the eye is done in a mixture of both. During critique I was told to use colored pencil because it captured the glow that my project produced in the best manner. It was also suggested for me to punch holes in my expressive rendition to really show how my project works. This is best seen in the last photograph on this page. The most recent images at the top of the page are scans of my drawings. They look much better :)

Suburban Stars:The Final Model

This is the final model for my Suburban Stars project, it is approximately 6 feet in height, and has about an 8 inch diameter. The reason for its gigantic height is to create something that you can physically look up at, taking that feeling of looking up at the night sky to the next level. The darker photos I have posted show the field of light it creates in the dark.

Luminescence: The Product- Suburban Stars Model 1

This is the first model of my luminaire for our luminescence project. it is about 8 1/2 inches tall with about a 4 inch diameter. during critique it was suggested to me that i should create another version of this at a much larger scale. This size would be more effective for my concept because it be be something that you would actually look up at and walk around, making it a full 360 degree experience.

This was the test model for my original idea. i call it suburban stars because that is something I have noticed. When you live in the city you never have a truly starry night. You may be able to see one or two really bright ones but you never see a whole sky filled with stars, unless you go out into the country. This is what my project is supposed to convey. This light emulates the feeling of looking at a sky filled with stars. This project creates a way to have the feeling of looking up at a star filled sky, so that even the suburbs can have stars.

Luminescence: A Study of Light

For this project we were told to conduct some research as far as studying different types of light, so I took some photos exploring lamp light, spotlight, evening, mid day, and morning light. Most recently I have added a black and white photo exploring night light, in addition to another exploration of lamplight on a wall. I enjoy the twinkling of the street lights and the speckled texture of the concrete wall. Finally, the last picture I added of the stars I found on The Daily Green's website.

Project Number 4: Hive O' Cocoons

For this project we were told we could make anything we wanted using 12 4"x6" planes of white Bristol board, and 12 bamboo skewers. It also had to include a 12"x12" base. I chose to cut slits in all of my planes. This allowed me to integrate the skewers with my planes. this created unity between the two. 

Originally I had an equilateral triangle as my base, but that wasn't working, as confirmed in critique, so I changed it to a circle with a 12" diameter. This created the look of a bee hive, and I glued two corners together on some of my planes. These looked like butterfly cocoons. Thus, I used images of these on my collage. The pointed tips of my cocoon shapes looked like leaves, so I added those to my collage as well.