The Big Sequence.

So I finished making the little figures out of pipe cleaners, and I sewed on small pom pom's as the hands and heads to finish them off.

 I then attached them to the grid with fishing wire. It was easy to knot, it was see through and it was sturdy, so it worked well for my purposes.

Finished painted frame.

So after I finished building the frames and putting in the nails on top, I needed to finish it off by painting it. I thought that black was a bit harsh looking and that white is too light, so I thought a mixture of the two would be better. After I finished putting the grey on it, over the wood and the nails, I weaved the fishing line around the nails and across the top of the structure. This way, it's gridded on top and I can hang the figures easily.

Little Fuzzy Figures.

So it was suggested to me that I should make my figures out of wire, but I found that when I was trying to make the first one, I thought that there wasn't enough colour using the plain grey wire. Also it was ripping my fingers to shreds and it took almost a full role to make one figure, so I was talking it over with my Mam and she suggested to me that pipe cleaners might be a good alternative. Pipe cleaners have wire at the centre of them but have colourful hair or fur coming out of them, so it gives a fuzzy texture. And they come in bright colours, which I really liked because I was told in a Group crit that my project lacked colour, so I really wanted to take that advice and brighten my work up.

Hammer time!

A video of me putting the nails in the frame at 2" apart. Not very exciting, but Mam decided so hit the record button, so I said I'd put her masterpiece up :) Please excuse my appearance as it was VERY early in the morning. Also the nails kept going sideways, which was annoying to say the least.

It's a FRAME! Some 3D work in the process.

Okay, so I'm building this frame because I've been doing a lot of Sequence work, such as the sequence of a jump or back flip, etc. and I wanted to bring this into my 3d work. So we went ahead and bought 4ft long wood, 1x1.5" and cut down the height and width to 1.5 ft long pieces, while keeping the length  4ft.

 After the frame was built, I put nails in at 2" apart on the top, because I needed something to hold the fishing line to grid across the top. The gird will be used to then steady and suspend the figures that are mid air.

 Hard at work!