Layers Project For this piece I was inspired by an artist named Hazel Glass, who creates beautiful artwork made of layers of paper. My design was based on a conch shell and then expanded on with patterns and random designs. Creating the layers of this piece was easy, building from the bottom up over a…
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Toy Design – Imogen Barnes
For my toy design I related two characters that I loved growing up: Bagpuss and the Bandersnatch from Alice in Wonderland. Bagpuss is from an old British show about a toy cat that lives with a little girl in a broken toys shop. At night Bagpuss comes alive with all the broken toys. I had…
3D Doodles – Imogen Barnes
These are my 3D doodles – the goat I made in ZBrush and the robot, which looks kind of like the one from Incredibles, I made in tinkercad (yes, there is a face of Abraham Lincoln on its head).
Lantern Project – Imogen Barnes
I haven’t had a chance to work in the makerspace for this project yet, but I will update this page as I go! So far I just have my inkscape design for the piece, which total up to 9 layers so far! My box will be 11.5″ tall, 8″ wide, and 2.5″ deep on the…
Lantern Design – Imogen Barnes
For my lantern design I am creating a layered landscape of Atlantis, with a large shadow of a squid looming in the background. Much of my inspiration came from Hari and Deepti’s work. A piece I drew a lot from was their Nautilus sea scene. I have created the three main layers of my piece,…
Layers Project – Imogen Barnes
This is the final version of my piece! I had a basic colour palette picked out of pinks and blues, and I decided as I went along which colour I thought would look good for each layer. I attached pictures of almost every later before I tapes them all together into the final piece. Working…
Layer Cuts – Imogen
I did all ten layers of my piece on plain card-stock today, and I really love how it turned out! It took a little while getting through all the layers but it was cool to see how they built on each other to achieve this final result. I’m going to tweak a few small parts…
Layers Design – Imogen
Okay so this looks complicated but each colour is a different layer that will be cut. Some of the layers will hide some of the lower layers so the finished product won’t be as complicated as what this design looks like. The swirl (light blue, green-yellow, and orange) is going to be the bottom layers,…
First Cuts (Designs #1 and #2) – Imogen
I had some issues with my exported files not containing all the drawn lines, but today the problem was solved! (kinda solved, I had to have the lines redrawn) I am happy with the way these turned out.
Drawings #2 & #3 – Imogen
Drawing 2: I drew my dog Maggie for my raster engrave drawing. She unfortunately passed away at the beginning of covid, so I am hoping the create a piece with her that I can give to my mum. I used different colours so that when it’s cut I can use different levels of power to…
Drawing #1 – Imogen
I drew a dragon mostly because dragons were one of my first areas of focus when I started drawing properly (when I started actually trying to develop my drawing techniques) in 6th grade, and also I am a huge Game of Thrones fan! I decided to cut the body so that that is the focus…
Imogen Barnes: Introduction and Portfolio
Hi! My name is Imogen Barnes and I am originally from Bristol, England. I moved to Michigan when I was young, then moved to Connecticut in 6th grade, and now I’m here in Worcester! I have always enjoyed making art since a young age, and I am currently working on my pen and ink techniques….