Xmas Present - Modelling - Theme: "A Storm in a Teacup"

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Project Entry by skiptotheend

The Cup is Half Full

December 13, 2021

Tutoring 6

Skill 6

Idea 7

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I wanted to add some weight to the mugs and also stop them being top heavy.

For this I used something that has been taking up space in my flat since my wedding. I had bought miniscule beads of glass to weigh down our centre pieces (which were fiasco bottles, i wanted glass beads to then shine some light back up)

the picture below is after i dropped them all over my front room and had to then find each small ball again. I tell you these were a pain in the glass balls!

Pain in the glass balls

In the photo in my first post you can just about see that I then cut out a piece of cardboard to stick over the top of these glass beads.

I used gorilla glue to keep in place, mainly because this is the glue i have which is most gel like and wont seep away between the gap of cardboard and mug.

I forgot to take a picture so apologies i dont have a better one. the cool bit which was an accident but works is that there is a slight gap, so when the mug is moved there is a rain stick ‘water’ sound. I will pretend i did this to add ‘immersion’

The next thing I did is take out the milliput (once the glue was dry), i moulded in the mugs the vague lows and highs of what will be my waves