Sensible Altered Cardboard Sculpture Artwork by AnDee Lumsden

I used to be wowed when photographs of AnDee Lumsden‘s sensible cardboard sculptures and distinctive cardboard beads started exhibiting up in my Instagram feed. A variety of her items look adequate to
eat… in fact I used to be particularly drawn to the cookies and ice cream sundae! Let’s get to know this imaginative artist who hails from the coastal city of Bargara, situated in Queensland, Australia.

AnDee, what
prompted you to begin working with paper, and specifically, cardboard?

Whereas I used to be learning for my diploma at College (I’ve a BA in Advantageous Arts), I used to be strolling
alongside the seaside trying to find discovered objects for one in every of my initiatives. I
got here throughout a beer bottle in a sandbank. It appeared to have develop into a
a part of the financial institution’s construction and brought on a brand new position of offering
power and stability. This led me to supplies in a different way
and the way they could possibly be helpful for a lot greater than their meant
objective.

I started experimenting with many alternative discovered and used
supplies with the intention to ‘uncover and reveal the jewel inside.’ The
one which stood out essentially the most as being amazingly versatile and exquisite was the corrugated cardboard field. For the previous seven years, I’ve been
experimenting with the paper layers from cardboard packing containers, and have solely simply
scratched the floor of what this wonderful materials can do. I look
ahead to discovering a lot extra!

Inform us about your thought course of for starting a sculpture.

I spend a variety of time at my studio desk experimenting, principally with the deconstructed field papers. It’s with the end result of those experiments that I create beads and jewels first, at all times in search of that jewel inside the materials. Then, I’ve an thought for the sculptures. I don’t appear to have one with out the opposite. I like to create sculptures with a number of elements, in addition to create issues that I can maintain and contact; valuable issues.

I am guessing you get pleasure from difficult your self to take advantage of sensible meals and different objects.

Sure, I do love an excellent problem. I’m at all times desirous to recreate on a regular basis objects and meals into magical, jewel-like issues. I believe this comes from the inside little one a part of me wanting to specific herself.

Are you able to share a bit about your course of?

For my meals sculptures, I take advantage of a mixture of cardboard mache clay created from
the corrugated paper layer of the cardboard packing containers, acrylic paint,
packaging paper, and layered papers from the cardboard field. All of it
depends upon what texture I need to create as to what approach I’ll use. I additionally
like to distinction the cardboard with journal collage. They’re often
sealed with matte varnish and Renaissance Wax. I’m not a fan of gloss
varnish.

AnDee’s web site is Nerdy Cardboard Love the place she writes weblog posts that comprise a wealth of details about working with this versatile materials.

Her artwork is on the market at Blue Thumb and by way of her Etsy store, MuseJewlPaperLove, the place you may discover handmade cardboard jewellery and likewise a tutorial for making rustic cardboard beads.