Wax House Illustration

For my second year of Fine Art A Level I looked at ways of illustration. Here is the images I created while experimenting with photography as a from of illustration.  


I wrote out a large part of the first/second chapter of Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll onto a sheet of clear plastic.



I then photographed a wax house that I had created with inspiration from the book. I placed the sheet over the lens and then underneath the house. Both give different effects, I prefer the writing underneath the house but for the purpose of an illustration having the writing on top works best.

 

 I made the house out of another clear sheet of plastic which I cut into a template, scored the edges and glued with PVA which dries transparent .

I covered and sealed the house in clear wax. Wax is something I have experimented with quite a lot and have made many other houses with. I find wax easy to work with and suitable for what I wanted to achieve.

I wanted to use light and the shapes of the house when cast as a shadow. It gives a very ghostly and beautifully simple visual image that hopefully allows the viewer, as the reader does, to interpret it as they wish. 

My First Wax House First House

For more photographs or for higher quality My Piterest

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Petal Book - Through The Looking Glass

I pulled off the petals on tulips.

I then stitched them together to create pages

I wrote a part of chapter two of Through The Looking Glass by 

Lewis Carroll in Biro.

I used lighting to distort them slightly once dried and photographed them.

This is only something I have played with briefly and will hopefully come back to.

My Book Art Displayed at Trinity

Photographs of my book art from my show at Trinity 

First House

My First Book Paper Houses
AS (First year of A Level) 2011

Made from book pages,
covers and sealed with wax.