Here are some pictures I took today.
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| Biggest dandelion I've ever blown :) Maybe that means I get more than one wish? |
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| Details- Skewers painted white, with brown clay and snipped and rolled white paper. Foam core painted green. |
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Frilly green paper- cut, colored for the browned dying edges, and curled
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I was originally going to make a dandelion that would hang from the ceiling, mainly because I wanted to make the lone tufts look like they were flying away in the wind. Because I don't have a ceiling that I wanted to permanently put nails into and hang dandelions from, I was going to make a makeshift ceiling from cardboard, attach it to the garage ceiling and then hang my art work from that. In the end, I decided it wasn't going to be worth the trouble of figuring out the details of how I was actually going to execute my plan considering I would probably have to take it down after taking some photos. So...I did some problem solving and decided to make it a standing dandelion, using an old lamp stand we had just sitting in the garage. To make the tufts look like they were flying, I cut a wire clothing hanger as shown in the diagram to the right. All the tufts were attached by fishing wire to the hanger and the fishing line. It's not ideal, since you can see the wire of the hanger, but the ones hanging from the fishing wire turned out nicely, especially because it's free to dangle around and seems more free flowing. If I had a permanent place to put it, it would probably be a good idea to paint the color of the wire the same as the background wall, at least to camouflage it a little better.
I will be posting pictures more pictures of how I made it within the next few days.
I was originally going to make a dandelion that would hang from the ceiling, mainly because I wanted to make the lone tufts look like they were flying away in the wind. Because I don't have a ceiling that I wanted to permanently put nails into and hang dandelions from, I was going to make a makeshift ceiling from cardboard, attach it to the garage ceiling and then hang my art work from that. In the end, I decided it wasn't going to be worth the trouble of figuring out the details of how I was actually going to execute my plan considering I would probably have to take it down after taking some photos. So...I did some problem solving and decided to make it a standing dandelion, using an old lamp stand we had just sitting in the garage. To make the tufts look like they were flying, I cut a wire clothing hanger as shown in the diagram to the right. All the tufts were attached by fishing wire to the hanger and the fishing line. It's not ideal, since you can see the wire of the hanger, but the ones hanging from the fishing wire turned out nicely, especially because it's free to dangle around and seems more free flowing. If I had a permanent place to put it, it would probably be a good idea to paint the color of the wire the same as the background wall, at least to camouflage it a little better. 
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