Actual Relief Self-Making Globe
Properties: A 40-cm-diametered globe of the world, with coloring.
Languages: None
Format: Hand-crafted, A Sphere with Clay Relief
Purpose: Project for participating School’s Tech Fair
Tools: Plastic Sphere, Clays with different colors, Painting Tools, A base
Co-Workers: Zhichao Zheng, Junzhe Xu
Preparation:
Setting up the coordinates and drawing coastlines and mountains on the plastic sphere.
Adhere clays on the sphere:
Using clays of different colors according to the landscape. Making relief according to actual elevations.
Painting:
Using gouache to paint on the globe and making the landscapes look more real and smooth
Sun dry:
Placing the globe in the balcony to let the gouache dry
Adding base and finish:
My dad helped me building a base and sticking in the globe at 23.5 degree from the earth’s axis