I am building an armature for a new wall-hanging sculpture called Early Bird. Starting with a cardboard profile hot glued to two circles that will support the wall-hanging hardware. Having learned from my former projects, I need the engineer to know how the piece will hang first. I used bolts, nuts, and fender washers to anchor the hanging wire.
Then I built out a basic wireframe using strips of poster board. The poster board was easy to curve and cut. I used hot glue to secure it to the cardboard profile.
With the wireframe in place, I added more poster board strips, forming a skin that fully covers the wireframe. The strips are attached with hot glue and overlap as needed. It’s amazing how quickly the creatures shape forms with this technique.
