For my final outcome I want to create a forest of fabric mushrooms using heat manipulation. Heat manipulation uses heat to craet shapes with different materials, e.g. Metal and fabric. The materials are melted together using the heat gun. I enjoy creating the mushrooms as I have always liked nature growing up and it is really interesting to me to create these. I have been researching different types of mushrooms, toadstools and fungus to base my design off. The mushroom have chosen is Amanita Muscaria which is most commonly known as the fly agaria/ amanita. Its native in the northern and southern regions. It is a large white gilled, white spotted, usually red mushroom. Some of these mushrooms have yellow or white caps but all have white spots. Even though it's poisonous the deaths from this mushroom are extremely rare.
To create this mushroom I used: white, pink tinted and red plastic fabri; tinfoil or rolls of paper from toilet paper; scissors and a heat gun. To create the stem I folded the tin foil in half then rolled it up to create a cylinder. Next I rolled the cylinder and I blind the plastciy fabric together usng the heat gun and I wrap it around itself. I do this with a layer of pink tinted then white fabric. To create the cap I cut multiple circles of red fabric together to create the dome shape. I then fold the edges inwards using a heat gun I when melt them together using the heat gun. The stem is attached to the cap by filling the area with white fabric and melting it to the red fabric and the white stem to hold it in place. Finally I create small white circles for the spots and I melt them onto the red cap using a heat gun.
Don't burn yourself with the heat gun, keep a window open to ventilate air, don't cut urself using scissors, don't sip on the frabic as its slippery
I decided that I wanted to present my mushroom art piece outside in its natural habibat, so I left the house and travelled to a nearby woodland area to take photos. Orginally i was just going to present my art work on a white background like my other artists i have looked at thoughtout this portfolio but i thought I would present it in the a more natural way. The artist Adam Long created 3d scuptures of his work using materials he found in nature and paper/ newspaper. He placed his artwork onto a terricota background so that the focus is on the artwork. Instead of that I decided I was going to take photos of my work to bring it closer to nature.