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        • Part I: exploring the words
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        • An application for the bioplastic
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    • DuÅ”anka
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            • Assignment 0 - Zine
            • Assignment 1 - Paper circuit
            • Assignment 2 - Soft speaker
          • Assignment 1
          • Assignment 2
        • 4 | Cutting Supersurfaces
          • Assignment 0 - Zine
          • Assignment 1 - Sample Book
        • 5 | Additive Manufacturing
          • Assignment 0 - Zine
          • Assignment 1 - Mold documentation
          • Assignment 2 - Molds
        • 6 | Untoolkit: Electronic Inputs
          • Assignment 0 - Zine
          • Assignment 1 - Antiprimadonna's
          • Assignment 2 - Working circuit
        • 7 | Transforming: Molding and Casting with Bioplastics
          • Assignment 0 - Zine
          • Assignment 1 - Intro
            • Bioplastics
            • Experiential toolkit
            • Material properties sheet
            • Future applications
            • Reflection
        • 8 | Untoolkit: Eelectronic Outputs
          • Assignment 0 - Zine
          • Assignment 1 - Working circuit
      • 11 | Projects Kick-Off
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      • 13 | Project Work
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      • 14 | Reframing
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      • 15 | Making fake water
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      • 16 | Making a cherry blossom tree
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      • 17 | Expo plan & Clouds
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      • 18 | Research zine & Coffee soil
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      • 19 | Research zine 2.0
    • Kaz
      • 1 | Kick-Off
      • 2 | Electronics: Connecting Materials
        • Assignment 0 - Zine
        • Assignment 1 - Paper circuits
        • Assignment 2 - Building a speaker
      • 4 | Cutting Supersurfaces
      • 5 | Additive Manufacturing
      • 6 | Untoolkit: Electronic Inputs
      • 7 | Transforming: Molding and Casting with Bioplastics
      • 8 | Untoolkit: Electronic Outputs
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    • Kim
      • 1 - Introweek
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      • 4 - Cutting Supersurfaces
        • The making of: The Sample Book
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        • Zine - Week 4
      • 5 - Additive Manufacturing
        • Understanding Fusion 360
        • Understanding Cura
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        • Zine - Week 5
      • 6 - Coronaweek Untoolkit: Electronic Inputs
        • LDR LED connection with Arduino
        • Zine - Week 6
      • 7 - Coronaweek Transforming: Molding and Casting with Bioplastics
        • Material properties sheet + Experiential toolkit
        • Future Bioplastic concept
        • Zine - Week 7
      • 8 - Untoolkit: Electronic Outputs
        • Output swatch
        • Zine - Week 8
      • Project Page Biodegradable Packaging Bags
      • 11 - Project proposal week
        • Trial of evidence week 11
      • 12&13 - Project Bioplastic Consumables
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      • 14 - Reframing week
        • Trial of evidence week 14
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        • Trial of evidence week 15
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        • 16 - The first test
      • Material Sample 1
      • 17 - Project work
        • 17 - Ironing a bioplastic bag
        • 17 - New method for sticking a bioplastic bag together
        • 17 - How to compost?
        • Trial of evidence week 17
      • 18 - Trial of Evidence
      • 19 - Trial Of Evidence
      • 20 - Trial Of Evidence
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      • Week 1: Kick off
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      • Week 4: Cutting Supersurfaces
      • Week 5: Additive Manufacturing
      • Week 6: Untoolkit: Electronic inputs
      • Week 7: Transforming Molding and Casting with Bioplastics
      • Foam For Material Activists
        • How to protect?
        • To find a material
        • Foam
        • Trail of Evidence
        • Midterm presentations
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      • Foto's
      • Midterm presentation
      • Project: Stop touching
        • Project Proposal
        • Inspirational projects
      • Cutting Supersurfaces
      • Additive Manufacturing
      • Molding and Casting with Bioplastics
        • Creating natural dyes
        • Created bioplastics
      • Electronic input
      • Electronic output
    • Thijs
      • Week 1 - Kickoff
      • Week 2 - Electronics : connecting materials
      • Week 2 - Workshop : debugging circuits
      • Week 2 - Making a speaker
      • Week 3 - Processes & Collaboration
      • Week 4 - Cutting supersurfaces
      • Week 4 - Zine editor
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      • Week 6 - Untoolkit: Electronic Inputs
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      • Week 07 - Transforming Bioplastics
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Building scenery

Going up in height and sculpturing with bioplastics

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Last updated 5 years ago

Intro

This week I will be focussing on creating scenery for the board. I will be sculpturing with bioplastics and paint them with natural dye, made from things around me.

Making an earthy color palette with natural paint

In order to bring some life into my scenery I decided to make my own paint with things that are around me. For now, I am just concentrating on making some mountains and rocks. So the colors I would need are: black, grey and brown. Because I am going to cover my bioplastic sculptures with lime plaster, which is grey, I dont need to make grey anymore.

Black

I collected some very dark soil/dirt from outside next to the road so it may contain a bit of asphalt as well which will make it extra black.

I then added about a spoon of water and some cooked coconut oil so. I cooked the coconut oil so that it would melt. When i mixed the oil with the soil it became more of a thicker paint texture instead of a water color, it was more concentrated. Some people put icing in it instead of coconut oil, but unfortunately I didnt had that in my house but coconut oil worked just as good.

This is how the black turned out on paper

You still see a bit of the soil textures but I don't mind it since I am making a landscape and it fits perfectly with it. You could eventual blow the dirt away or wipe it with a brush so that there is only paint left.

Brown

I basically did the same with brown as I did with black. I made two shades of brown. One with cinnamon and one with coffee.

This is just regular coffee, I opened up a coffee pad and poured it into a jar.

This is the cinnamon I used, it is a lighter brown than the coffee. I wanted to have 2 browns so that I could create more depth in the mountains and hills I was going to make.

This is how they turned out on paper:

The cinnamon paint is a bit thick because I used quite a bit of coconut oil but I think this has a nice earthy texture and can come in handy when creating a base.

This is the coffee paint and is less thick than the cinnamon but can be used as shading the darker parts for the scenery.

I am quite happy how it turned out, I might need to make some other colors later on if I want to make a river or grass texture for example so maybe I might need green and blue.

Making the material

Sawdust

Dextrin

Water

81 grams

100 grams

94,5 ml

When mixing the dextrine with water tand then boiling it it was 1 big piece, but the longer you boil it the more liquid it became.

When the dextrin was ready I mixed it up with the sawdust in a bowl. After about two days, this is what it looked like (this was just a piece of the mould I poured it into).

I then stacked them up a bit to get the form of a small mountain.

100% natural plaster

Giving it a more ground texture

I then just covered the sawdust/dextrin pieces with the plaster so that it became more one whole.

I then painted this piece only on the flat., horizontal surfaces with my cinnamon paint.

The vertical surfaces I painted with the soil/dirt paint and the coffee paint.

I then added some stones and grass that I found on the end of my street to make it more nature looking.

Finished result

I made a couple of other ones, and basically did it in the same way.

Reflection

I'm pretty satisfied how the landscape turned out. I do feel like I need a lot more scenery and different kinds of scenery, so not only hills but maybe also some woods, a river etc. But I think that is a nice opportunity to try out different bioplastic recepies.

I was looking for something that was firm but something I could still take some pieces off for the sculpturing, so I chose the sawdust & dextrine recipe, found . Because I needed an insane amount of it I did al the ingredients x27.

The dextrine I bought at for about €3,60. For the sawdust I went to Vomar and bought 56 liters for about €2,50. It is 100% natural and recycble.

I needed something to make it more firm and give it another texture. I needed something that I can connect different parts of the sawdust with. That is why I bought this (€2,- for 1 kg). I actually wanted another kind of plaster, the model plaster one but unfortunately this one was sold out. With the 'snel gips' it dried very fast (15min) so I had to work quickly.

The gypsum of Knauff is actually a 100% natural product. It is in certain places in the earth. Knauff's fabrics are located at gypsum quarries. Knauff's policy is: what we get from nature should also be given back to nature. Gypsum quarries that are no longer used are set up as new nature reserve. This involves collaborating with universities to achieve a more diverse growth of flora and fauna than there was before the qurarries and this resuts in beautiful new nature reserves. Sources:

here
van Beek
lime plaster at gamma
https://knauf.nl/gips
https://www.highlandinteriorfinishes.ca/eco-friendly-plaster/
Soil with pieces of asphalt for black paint, Dusanka, 2020
Coconut oil from action (about 2,- I think), Dusanka, 2020
Soil/dirt paint, Dusanka, 2020
Coffee, Dusanka, 2020
Cinnamon, Dusanka, 2020
Cinnamon paint, Dusanka, 2020
Coffee paint, Dusanka, 2020
Earthy color palette, Dusanka, 2020
Sawdust at vomar for 2,50, Dusanka, 2020
Boiling the dextrin with water, Dusanka, 2020
Dextrin and sawdust after 48 hours +-, Dusanka, 2020
Dextrin and sawdust after 48 hours +-, Dusanka, 2020
Knauff/gamma lime plaster, Gamma, Dusanka, 2020
Sawdust/dextrin covered in plaster, Dusanka, 2020
Sawdust/dextrin/plaster piece painted with cinnamon, Dusanka, 2020
Painted with my natural dyes, Dusanka, 2020
Bioplastics landscape, Dusanka, 2020
Bridge made of branches, Dusanka, 2020
Bioplastics landscape, Dusanka, 2020