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.

The first boomerang I made wasn't good.  I pressed the imprint of it into clay and poured plaster in.  This was hard to do and I had to keep remaking the clay mold.  I made 3 of these.  There's only one remaining as the others broke from me throwing them down the garden to see if they worked.  They didn't.