cardboard

I picked the cow jawbone for my cardboard sculpture project. my first idea was to cut two templates out in the shape of the jawbone's outline.. these would be the sides of the sculpture. Then i cut out 4 teeth, which i would put between the two sides. the hard part was to get the swervy form down and also to have a varing thickness throughout. First i curved the cardboard in my hands, making them more bendable, and less ridgid. I took the ends, the point of the chin and the joint where the bone meets the skull, and glued the two sides down, holding them in place  in the angle i wanted them to be in. they dried with a warp in them, as i wanted. the warp carried on throughout the whole piece, and i just looked to manipulate the warp through a process of bending, glueing and clamping them down. i added crumbled paper in the inside of the sculpture to push sides out and give it more thickness. I also added extra layers of cardboard to make it thicker, with varying depths.