Let me EGGsplain...

I've decided to develop my mini egg sculptures I did in Semester 1 further by exploring with different materials in making my sculptures to a bigger scale to what I am used to and more comfortable with smaller pieces of work. I decided to get some balloons and wrap them in wool, tissue paper and PVA. It was a very messy procedure but the results were good. I decided to use the wool because it is soft but when mixed with glue it hardens and holds it's shape. I have purposely left gaps so I could have flowers growing out of the egg as if they are trying to break free from this trapped space they have been confided in.

Tissue paper was a tricky material to use, I wasn't sure how many layers to put on the balloon but I think in this one there is about 2 or 3 layers which makes the result harder in some places and weaker in others. Which is something I was happy with because when holding the sculpture in your hands it has the fragile sense to it like an egg does, the texture of it is something I liked and the balloon left a red tint inside of the egg which unexpectedly added to the sculpture. I haven't decided what I want to place inside these yet it is something I am still working towards, I would say this was a success and I plan to make more tissue paper sculptures maybe with other colours as well as white.

Another wool egg but in a nice pale blue colour, the pink colour flowers I had chosen really complimented the colour of the wool I decided to use to make this egg. I believe this one was also a successful result and it is definitely something I am going to keep developing. Maybe have a whole egg just made of the stringed wool and plants trying to pop out? or a whole egg just made up of plants? I will have to see where these ideas take me.