Fashion kills.

[secondlina]

So news of the day:
For my first art project, I wanted to build glass slippers from old drinking glasses. I wanted the slippers to look jarred and dangerous to represent Cinderella's painful life. Unfortunatly, building glass slippers from scratch proven to be much much more difficult then I thought. At first, I was planning to sew shoes out of plastic fabric and then add glass on top of that base. I manged to construct the plastic shoe, but then I glued one piece of glass on it and it flattened because of the weight.

After saying "Huh. Should have seen that coming..." I decided to try finding an old flat sandal sole to start from. Installing the glass heel on the sandal killed it. Then it smelled like burning. The hot glue was melting the sole. Stupid cheap sole!

Isa : 0
Evil shoe : 2

I then asked my mother for help. She offered me old white sandals. The sole was beautiful, but the top was horribly ugly. I tried cutting off the top. Stabbed my hand.

Isa: 0
Stupid evil shoe: 3
(and I didn't even really start on the glass. What's it gonna be when dangerous materials will be used?)

At this point I got pretty tired of trying. I tried calling my friend tama to go out and therefore not keep trying.
Tama was busy.

At this point, since distraction was out of the picture, I tried calling the person who gave me advice on my weird sculpture projects before: Link. Link suggested that I go forth and seek fiberglass and try to build a transparent sole with that. Not a bad idea i'll admit. But expensive. So I tried finding an alternative. Wallacks as a few suggestions, so tomorrow, i'll be visiting wallacks on bank street. Get myself some firepower to overcome the shoe.

I really really want to make this shoe, which is most likely why I have abandonned yet XD

But while looking for cool shoes building ideas, I found a new awesome fairy tale using artist:
Miss Cherbuliez! I love her Snow white in the coffin sculpture! It has a large amount of dust on it (on purpose). Awesome! Her Alice is great too.


Wow, i've been posting a lot and talking about artstuff. This blog is gonna go from "drabbles of the delightfully eccentric" to "drabbles of the artistically challenged" soon.....

-Secondlina

 

Comments

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I'd say get clay or something that you can shape into what you want, put cloth (or the sewn 'bootie' you already had) over it, then glue the glass on. Then later you can take out the clay/whatever and you'll have the glass slipper. Or heck, you could probably even use something as basic as toilet paper stuffed and shaped into a foot shape within a plastic bag and go from there.

When dealing with 3-D shapes, you have to remember to support them as you're working on them until they dry.

(I like posts on art struggles!)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Question is: would the shoe really hold itself up when i'm done gluing stuff on it?

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

If you put glue between the pieces of glass (not just the glass being glued to a surface below it) to reinforce things, I see no reason why it wouldn't hold up after it's dried. Are you using a hot glue gun? As long as you're generous with the glue (not to the point of it looking a mess) it should be just fine.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I know that there's plastic heeled shoes out there, but not so sure if the heels themselves are transparent. Oh, there are! Here you go!

And doesn't eccentric and artistically challenged mean the same thing? ;)

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I wish I could offer a few suggestions for you, but I don't have much experience for building things with glass. It does sound like an awesome idea though. I hope you can make it work.

I love reading about your artstuff. Besides, I agree with dqbunny I think "eccentric" and "artistically challenged" are just about the same thing. ^_~

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

*laughs at Cinderella comic*

I've heard of suffering for your art, but this is ridiculous! I hope it will turn out well in the end.

Good Luck!

[naomi-daos.livejournal.com]

I always wondered how she could walk in glass shoes...and it looks like prince charming never came..