19th -20th August 2009

After waiting a couple of days for more materials to arrive in the post I had been given chance to think about what we had done so far. What I had decided is that the foam base wasn't convincing enough as the moon, it was too bland as well as being too obviously foam. On top of that the joins between pieces of foam were rather unsightly.

To remedy this problem my Dad and I filled in the joins with modelling clay. This looked better but the grid lines were still obvious, so we used modelling clay to make the whole landscape uneven and more "rocky". To blend all the materials together and make the landscape complete I painted it with grey acrylic paint. To give the impression of distance I then cut a mountainous backdrop out of foam to place against the night sky backdrop, which in itself caused me some problems.

I had decided I wanted LEDs protruding through the backdrop to give the impression of stars. This caused a problem. The foam I was going to make my night sky out of looked rubbish with loads of LEDs behind causing a lot of ripples and general uneven-ness. So a new plan had to be put into action. Luckily my Dad had found my sisters art supplies she had left behind. I naturally aquired the aforementioned supplies.

I took a couple of canvases and painted them with black acrylic paint and cut holes into them to poke the LEDS through. All was going to plan, or so I thought. After taking a few test shots with my K20D it turned out the LEDS were too bright and caused a lot of lighting issues. So in the end we decided we just needed to get a diffused light source behind the canvases to give the impression of stars in the night sky.