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My artwork is a two story cardboard home. It has two balconies and many windows. I painted it a gray brown color and the pillars of the balconies were made out of rocks consisting of brown, gray, white, and tan. I wanted to stick to an earthy color palette. Following that, the home is surrounded by green moss on the ground. I wanted to incorporate things that looked more realistic for the build so I figured moss and real shingles left over from my aunts house were a good idea. The shingles are a darker color to a light gray. This fits well with the earth tones. I went for a modern structure with straight lines and a lot of boxes. I did make some idents in the house to add a sort of difference so it wouldn't look completely like a box. The balconies are a medium brown color and are in front of the house instead of in the back. The process of creating this house was very long and there were many details and ideas that I wanted to execute in order to make the house look good. I decided to go big or go home so I tried to do everything I could think of that I could manage with the time limit. I started with building the house on one of my favorite games, the Sims 4, which lets me build very realistically proportioned houses across a grid. To start on the actual house, I first cut out a base which was just a square of cardboard about 2ft by 2ft and I gridded it in inches to help me place the structure since that's how the home was built on the sims. I then cut out all the wall pieces and used paper tape to put everything together. One I had all the bottom level walls put together, I attached that to my baseboard using hot glue. In the walls I cut out where windows would be ahead of time before attaching. Then I paper taped a ceiling onto the top of floor one and moved on to make floor two which was essentially the same process. For the windows I glued clear plastic pieces into the inside of the house where the holes are, which from the outside, made it look like windows. I painted the house and worked on the pillars during the whole project. To make the pillars I paper taped 4 pieces of cardboard together and then hot glued small rocks in a random order onto the pillars. I then made the balconies which was just more cutting and glueing. I used hot glue to attach moss surrounding the outside of the house on the base. The roof was one of the more difficult parts. I started by measuring and cutting triangles based on the degree and lengths of the ceiling. I started with a base of a larger roof in the middle and then I had three different sprouts off of that. Once I had those bases, I cut out the shingles and hot glued them on. For the doors of the home I used pieces of cardboard, but cut out a small design on them to accentuate that they were doors not windows. For the "glass" I also used the plastic sheets that I used for the windows. I was inspired by some of Charles R. Stinson's work. I loved the home he built called "Modern Lake Home" That is where I got the idea for a earth theme. I really like the way he did a chunky rock pillar look and how he used earth tones throughout the whole house. My goals for this artwork were to make the house contain more realistic parts, to try to make all of the edges mostly smooth and not so ruff cut, and to make the house proportionate. My overall thought on my artwork is that I think I spent a lot of time on it and that for the time I had it looks pretty good. I could have added things but I think for now It looks nice. I'm happy with how it turned out.
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AuthorHi, Im Brooke. I like sports and I love anything that goes fast. I'm also am fascinated by architecture and anything to do with home designing. Archives
June 2021
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