During class this week

During class this week I spent a good amount of time in Detroit. I explained my project in full to the girls teacher. As well as got suggestions on the project. Mrs.Locy asked if I could possibly create a conventional book of Denee's work so that she can use it as a portfolio at the end of the year now that she is graduating.
I also spent 2 hours working with Denee on her project creating interact drawings on fabric and black paper with silver sharpie markers. Including driving and talking with her teacher I was in Detroit for 5 hours this week.
I also started my final book for Kamari. I am going to create a tunnel book to turn drawings into 3-D pieces. I cut out all of the pieces to create the frame, background, and the bellows of the book. I also worked on cutting out the actual images to put in the piece which turned out to be a lot more time consuming then I originally planed. Overall it took about 6 hours to start the initial set up of this piece.

I learned that I need to be much more patient when cutting book board. I spent a lot more time touching up my poorly cut pieces of board then I should have if I had just took my time in the beginning. I also spent a lot of time having to reprint pictures to put in the book because the coloring wasn't the way I had hoped. I think I could have gotten a lot further on this book this week if I hadn't been so careless in my cutting.

By the end of next week I hope to be over 50% done with the first book. I also need to finish writing my rough draft. I will also go to Detroit this Tuesday and work with the girls. I'm hoping to start a clay project, either this Tuesday or Thursday. Will see how it goes. Hopefully the book part of my project starts coming together soon.