This semester I am taking 3 art classes. I figured it would be less stressful for my raging hormones if I took classes that were not too intense. Sounds like a good plan, but obviously I didn't give my art classes enough credit. So far I've completed 3 projects in Design II and have been working on my first book for my Handmade Books class. They have been more time consuming than I thought. I am not complaining. I actually find working on these projects a bit cathartic, especially mixing paint. My third art class is History of Design. No art project, just reading, lectures and tests. Luckily I find it very interesting. So I wanted to show what I've been working on. My previous Design II projects are hung up at school, so I will show you the last one I did.
The assignmet was to take a letter, number or symbol and repeat it using a monochrome color pallete. I chose blue and the letter F. Baby Shock, who's name is top secret, begins with a F. So I used him for inspiration.
In Book Making we are working on our first book, a Concertina. Concertina means acordian in Italian, hence the acordian design of the book. For all 3 projects this semester, we had to choose an artist. I chose Van Gogh. The concertina project is to create a city-scape/city-skyline of the city that the artist was born in, worked in, lived it, etc. Since we had gone to Amsterdam during our Euromoon, I had great pictures to work from. The book is 8 pages, which are 8 1/2 inches tall by 3 inches wide. Here is the full text-block:
Let's break it down, shall we? Page 1 is The Cheese Shoppe;Page 2 & 3 are a building designed similar to Centraal Station; Between page 3 & 4 in the canal is a pop-out house boat
Pages 4 & 5 are a brick building with doors that open to reveal rows of Dutch clogs for sale; between page 5 & 6 is a pop-out bicycle; page 6 is a Red Light District house (hey, I'm just keepin it real)
Page 7 is a clock tower with movable hands on the clock as well as doors that open to reveal the clock-cogs; page 8 is a Dutch windmill with flowers
Monday we begin working on the book ends that will tie together with ribbon. I am anxious to see how this will all turn out when completed. I'll post new pics when it is completely finished.
It is nice to see that even for other mammals, mothers have a great big smile after that horrendous ordeal. I didn't even know seals could smile. So if a mama seal can smile after giving birth, the bench mark has been set for me. However, I don't think I'm looking forward to having a camera in my face on that wonderful day.
This is funny on so many levels for me. 1.) I am married to a "boob" man. So the fact that this rooster is aroused by a chicken bjorn that looks like boobs is hilarious. 2.) My boobs have gotten so big at this point that I could actually use a baby bjorn to carry them around all day.
