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My project book illustrates the brainstorming and research for a possible gallery installation.

Layers. Mountain scapes in miniature and lifesized..... the domino effect. Look for it soon in galleries near you!

Response To Shannon's Project Book

Your images flew out of the screen.There's is a boldness that I love! The three images grouped together would be fabulous on a large scale. You have a great eye.

Wow girl! Response to Amanda

Amanda, I have not talked much with you this week, but wanted to tell you that I think your work is fabulous! I am quite impressed with the everything book drawings. Your portraits in the altered book have so much style and fit great in that layout. The silhouettes are such a vintage theme that take me back to my Mimi's house. I am so glad to see your work and creativity. It is inspiring!

Found Series

This series came from images of my two cats sleeping against each other and the pattern in their fur. By croping the image, manipulating the levels, and applying a filter, I created the above.

Stephanie's Translation to Teaching

There is nothing in this class that can not be used in my classroom. I can not wait for school to start! I see my altered book assignment flourishing with the lesson ideas I learned from Lauren. I see my entire sketchbook changing. I plan to have a week long start-up plan to train the first year students on how to sketchbook. I feel like I just learned how to sketchbook myself. I plan on adding the research aspect to their workload. I think that is the most crucial aspect of everything I learned and saw this week. The ideas are endless as well as the lesson plans. The little book concepts are another thing I can use for design projects. AP art will be getting an overhaul as soon as I can get with them too. We will be doing things different in my classroom this year and for the better! Thanks a million Lauren!

Stephanie's Project Book

Stephanie's Found Lines

Stephanie's Everything Book

Stephanie's Altered Book

Translate To Teach

The altered book is a great for students to understand a series of work and the connection and flow of the individual pieces as a whole. This book can be a personal reflection or an interest/passion of the student. The class as a whole provided me with new techniques working as a catalyst for individual lessons or a way to pump up an already existing project. I LOVE SKETCHBOOK!!!!

Everything Sketch

I haven't had a period of true creation such as this in years!!! This book shows process and allows me to be loose with my work. Take a chance and try something new.

You're So Vein

I wanted to play with the structure of veins within leaves; size, direction how they differ from the shape of the leaf. By producing a series of rubbings and layering them, I was able to play with different effects by adding color, or weaving cut strips. This concept could produce a collection of 2-D and possible 3-D pieces.

We Came In Peace

I let the subject of the book direct the images and materials places inside. I used shape and line found with in charts and phenomena in space as well. This gave the book a graphic look. This is the first time I have done anything like this. I'm hooked!

Everything Book

I think my most successful page was my doughnut layout, but my favorite activity was the blind drawing (at the bottom). It was fun/interesting/funny/hard interpreting what we saw to the person drawing.

Bishop Translation

I think this class introduced me to several new techniques and activities that I will utilize in my elementary art classroom. I think the map book and the flag book are great ways of incorporating reading in my classroom. The everything book energized and old passion with new insight, and I plan to not only incorporate many of the blind drawings, memory drawings, and promps into my daily activities with students, it also reminded me that I myself should be practicing artmaking everyday.

Bishop Altered Book

These are a couple of my pages and the cover of my altered book. The content of the book consisted of the scientific data regarding waves and tides so I chose to keep my pages related to the sea and the sense of waves crashing using various torn papers.

Bishop Everything Book

I took pictures of the projects I enjoyed the most in my Everything Book. I found myself completely challenged (in such a great way) to step out of my comfort zone, i.e. controlling every aspect of the drawing process, and to loosen up and let my other senses have some fun.

Cherish's Project Book

My project book began with the idea of exploring family ghost stories. Eventually I focused on the story of "the hollerin' thing", a ghost that haunts Shelby, Alabama. I learned so much through the development of this book, I have decided to continue exploring this subject through personal research and artwork. I hope to find out more about the stories told in Shelby, Alabama, and how these stories fit into the tradition of storytelling in cultures around the world.

Shannon's Altered Book: Final Favorites

I loved some and hated some, but walking away helps with perspective and them it all comes together.

BishopProjectBook

For my project book, I started with the concept web of postcard which led me to vintage landscape postcards. The book outlines a project based on intensive studies of these postcards in various styles.