RANDOM MEANDERINGS

Continued with some more of my diorama tonight. Previous diorama posts Seedy diorama part 1 Seedy diorama part 2 The 'stained' mattress and pillow. Seemed a shame to stain it cos it looked so nice with the new material but would have looked silly to have had a new looking mattress in the scene, so using a wet teabag i made gross stains :-). Stuffing out of bottom of mattress to add perception of age. Close up of the fork on pizza box and there's the coat hanger... Close up of rolled up legal documents and also on the floor behind the bed There's the fork and i was particularly pleased at how real the mattress looked! Toilet paper, floppy disks to shelf; danger sign to door; coat hanger on side of bed.

Another couple of photos from yesterday. Stuck some comics on the floor and a donut too; made a shelf and stuck some 'dimp' on it; a can of drink on the end of the bed and pizza slices in a box under the bed. I thought comics would be more g rated than 1:12 porno mags LOL! There's that shelf with the dimp and a coin to scale

I started this diorama at the beginning of the year but lost interest because i was getting frustrated with trying to make a clay person LOL...i now understand clay people are not my forte... so with my success with 'Life of Grime' i've been spurred on! It didn't start out as a seedy hotel room...destiny picked that out when after adhering the green 'wallpaper' to the walls, the PVA soaked thru and i thought "wayyy cool that looks grotty" LOL! I begun with a plain brown box from Spotlight. I then printed the green wallpaper; made the skirting boards; door architrave and door; window frame, plonking photo of city behind. The room exit needed a bit of something for depth, so i scaled down a hallway scene [that's a can of coke and some power points included in it] and adhered. Today i sort of 'distressed' the skirting boards, window frame and door to appear dirty. Added the peeling paper on ceiling. The right hand corner with peeling ceiling...

Distance shot with extra items to date added. Coin at base for scale Lollipop on shelf under bench; bag of lollies by vegetable basin; apple cut in half on shelf under bench; icky apple core at front of bench Softdrink cans on shelf under bench; garden terracotta pot holding knives, forks and spoons tipped over, spoon hanging over edge; Brush and mug tipped over; apples in sink with false teeth on top; cork from spaghetti jar by apples, with spaghetti over sink; mussels and shells beside fish; apple core front of bench; Lollipop under benchtop Icky half eaten apple, top and front of bench; apple shortcake front of bench; half peeled apple by leeks; spaghetti jar fallen over back of bench with spaghetti fallen out in to sink; loaf of bread partially sliced with crust off Life of grime - Part one Life of grime - Part two