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.

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...