For the good of the group and to make the most of the time we have left of this unit, we have decided to split the group into two. We asked each other who wanted to get what out of the unit. Some said they were looking forward to working more with the children and getting some shadow work done with the teacher. I said that I was interested in working with new materials and getting an insight into working three dimensionally as I have never done this before.
So today Joel and I met up in the studio.
We had planned to source materials for our piece in the morning, but then realised we didn't have the specifics (dimensions, lengths etc) of the piece worked out so we spent a good amount of time discussing how we wanted the piece to look/function. This highlighted how little I know about working with wood.
I had an idea in my head of how I wanted to build the piece but when I tried to articulate this to Joel, he immediately told me how my ideas couldn't work properly and this was great for me to find out as it made me realise that there was so much that I didn't know about wood work.
I found out that we would need special exterior wood.
It was also news to me that we would need to varnish the wood after painting so that it would be weather proof..
I also learnt that there were so so so so so many ways of joining wood and that it genuinely frazzled my brain trying to work out how to join one piece of wood to another.
In conclusion, I am not the natural when it comes to working with wood.. You win some, you lose some.
Here are some images of the sketches Joel and I were working from:
This has definitely given me the confidence to be more open to using different materials.
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