in april 2010 i made some props for one of my favorite clients. i've been doing the windows for market in brentwood for almost 10 years now and i just love working with the owner jenn. she loves all of my ideas and has been really encouraging and supportive. we had some big styrofoam balls left over from another installation that i want to repurpose. my first thought was to cover them in tissue paper fringe. i love the work of confetti system and was feeling influenced by their amazing pinata like creations. but after a few tests something was just not feeling right - the fringe effect was just not working like i had imagained. it just so happened that jenn was collecting used books from her customers to donate to a charity. i got the idea of using pages from old books and started experimenting with ways to embellish the balls. i messed around with a few things and covering them in a fish scale like manner seemed to click. i had alot of fun making the props and they ended up getting the most overwhelming and positive response i have ever recieved for a prop. they were even featured in the new york times. i documented to process and posted photos of the installation on my flickr page - please go here here here here and here.
part of the overwhelming repsonse were the requests for a tutorial. for lots of reasons that never happened. but when the folks at creativebug wanted to me to do a video on the project i jumped at the chance. everything creativebug does is just absolutely beautiful so finally the best way for me to show you how to make the project had come my way.
the video attached here is a sneak peek of the project. please visit the creativebug website for the complete video as well as tons of other projects by some really amazingly talented people. hope you enjoy!