Wire and Paper Sculpture – The Pearl Spun Princess.

Wire & Paper Sculpture.

Over the weekend I’ve been busy making a wire and paper figurine; similar to one I had in the shop late last year. I know I don’t use strong colours in my work but it doesn’t mean I don’t like colour.  I love colour, its inspiration straight away.  But I do love subtle tones, especially playing with tones that are closely linked.  The colours of the satins I bought I just love.  In this little wire and paper figurine the colours of the satins have totally influenced the piece,” The Pearl Spun Princess”.  Beautiful soft oyster pinks, like the colours of the inside of a shell, also soft pearly whites.  Contrast is good in any work so with wire and paper figurine, I have the contrast within the textures of the materials, the sheen of the satin against the roughness and crispness of the cartridge paper of her under skirt.

The Pearl Spun Princess.

I can just imagine this young sprite living along the coast searching for beautiful pearls and spinning them into the most magnificent fabrics.

This wire and paper figurine is up on my Etsy shop.

The occasional wire and paper figurine is great fun to make, they take on a life of their own and you never really know who or what you’ll end up with. For now I’ve got to get back to Sleeping Beauty as I want to get her finished by the end of the week.  She has been so fiddly to do; I’ve had to do her between other projects.  Will post her when she is done.

As an aside, we had some snow over the weekend; Tom was made up, he loves the stuff ( snow is very rare here, we usually have to travel to the mainland to go play in it).  He even walked down to the village shop at break of dawn so he could be out in it. Wished I’d gone with him now but, stayed snuggled up in bed. We took some pics so will try and get them up this coming Wednesday. Here’s a taster.

Snowy Saturday sunrise in Trearddur Bay.