Newest book and some other things

Over the past week and a half I have completed my first tunnel book. It has a few mistakes in it, but I'm glad I figured them out in the small book instead of a final piece. Overall it took about 12 hours this week and a few hours the week before.

I also created three books for the girls to paint on that I plan on binding in a Coptic style and giving to them at the end of the semester. I had to drill holes in all of them before they can start painting, as well as cut down paper for the center of each book. This probably took around 3.5 hours.

Lastly regarding books I cut out 32 boards for a book to put denee's work in. The pieces are all 5"x5" and I plan on using a wire edge binding to combined them all in the end.

I also went to Detroit twice this week. The first time I went we spent the class period playing around with water color paint. I have never seen Denee so excited to work with any other media as she did with paint, which is why I plan to use a lot more painting in the upcoming weeks.
We also worked with clay this past Thursday. It was a ton of fun and I am excited to see how they turn out after the girls paint them. April seemed to really love the clay, as well as a sticky style clay called model magic that felt like a sticky play dough to work with.

Tomorrow I am bringing supplies for a Dragon project. Peter has a friend, Toko, who is working on a project where tons of people create parts of a body of a dragon and then they will all be put together to create one piece in the end. The girls and I are going to spend the class period create pieces to help out. In the end Toko plans to pass this dragon artwork to the orphanage "Tohoku Rainbow House". Toko is hoping that this project will help bring in donations for the orphanage as well.

Once the clay is dry we will paint the pieces that they created last week. And start working on painting the book covers that I cut out to let them work on a medium other then paper.