The person who gave me the idea of doing many different types of the same thing was an artist called Panamarenko.  He's interesting because he makes various types of planes that don't work.  They are beautiful objects.  Even though I'm not making anything near as complex as a plane, he did give me idea to work with one type of object.  Some examples of his planes can be found in my Contextual Studies notebook.

While I was fooling around with the Origami boomerang, I did some research on 3 piece boomerangs and I found a 4 piece picture.  So I made 2 regular boomerangs and stuck them together to see what would happen.  Turns out it worked!

I tried experimenting with the paper boomerangs a bit.  I attached string at both ends to see what would happen.  The string is too heavy for the paper so it doesn't work.

I tried out one of the plaster and some of the wax boomerangs.  I partly guessed they wouldn't return.  They seem to glide alright but because of the unusual materials they're made from, they don't come back.

This is the aftermath of throwing them!

Here's the paper boomerang in flight.  Enjoy!

After the paint boomerang, it gave me the idea of making another boomerang out of tooth paste because both of these mediums are very similar, both in texture and appearance.  Plus I've never heard of anyone doing something with tooth paste before so it was interesting to try out!  Here it is.

Unfortunately, whatever is in the spray paint it didn't react well with the plastic template.  Long story short, after a couple of hours I went back to check on the spray painted sticks and the spray paint ate right through the plastic, leaving me with this!

Not quite the outcome I was hoping for!!

I started looking at environmentally friendly artists like Andy Goldsworthy and he made a huge sculpture out of wooden logs.  He's a naturalist and an artist and he works with whatever nature offers him, snow, leaves, trees etc.  He's an english sculpture, photographer and environmentalist and he currently lives in Scotland.

From this, I decided to try to make a boomerang out of natural objects aswell as bizarre ones.  I tried making one out of twigs.

As a bonding agent, I used gold spray paint.  I chose this because like twigs we get gold from the ground, deep in the earth.  It's just that whole idea of making things from the materials that the earth offers us like mud, sticks, leaves, etc.

This will be a boomerang made of solidified paint once it dries.

I found instructions on how to make an Origami boomerang that works on the internet.  I have all the steps illustrated and explained in my sketch pad so anyone can make them. The good thing about them is they're relatively easy to make and they keep you occupied for hours!  I made about 8 of them before I got it spot on but this is what they look like.

Just because I was curious and because I never tried these before, I made some dyed resin shells using the plastic templates.  I compared them with the resin boomerang I made earlier.

Along with the plastic templates, I also made a rubber mold to use repeatedly for materials such as resin.

This was effective but I also used the plastic templates to make wax boomerangs of a variety of different colours.

I got sick of remaking the clay whenever I wanted to make a new boomerang, so I used my real boomerang and a suction machine to make a plastic template.  This was much more effective because I could reuse it and the boomerang came out perfect every time.

These plastic templates really made a difference as shown here.