So I had to change the photo to a stock photo I found. Here is a jet-engine powered Vespa!

This is my next book. It’s a 5 stitch pamphlet. We were supposed use 5 random words for content and inspiration. Since I’m bad at being random…. Instead I painted pictures, then decided what the pictures were and drew them in.

I think it’s cute. It’s all leftover paper from my printmaking class ages ago.

So for my Digital Imaging class I had to come up with a stand-alone image showing what something in our future would be like. Someone did a computer in a small hand-held sphere, another did a television embedded in a contact lens with the remote embedded in your palm. And another student did a robotic hand that would be able to help you with anything, like folding laundry. There were a lot of clever ideas.

Mine was, underdone in my opinion. Only because I didn’t get to have a person riding the Vespa that I was photoshopping. If I could post my classmates work here I would, but I can’t, so I won’t. And I’ll just show you mine. It’s supposed to be a Vespa powered by electric and motorized by a jet-like-engine, and it doesn’t roll. The force and angle of the engine lift the Vespa off the ground like a hovercraft. Eco- and City- friendly.

We get to revise our images according to our teachers critiques this week. So next Tuesday I should have an updated version. We’ll see!

My Fine Arts class for this semester is… Bookmaking! Hurray!! I made my first three books last night. Last night. They were due… Last night. Okay yeah they were rush jobs. I’d been planning them for several days, but I cranked these babies out in roughly 3 hours.

I really shouldn’t do that. In fact, because I rushed, there are flaws. But you know, it’s better than having nothing. I will definitely be spending more time on my bookmaking than I did last night. (I know the pictures can be fuzzy.)

My books are 8-page “one page wonders”. They are approximately 2 3/4 in wide x 4 in high. I think. At least they were when I did my one and only measurement of them at the beginning of the project. After that I just eyeballed everything. I know… I’m terrible.

I designed them to be pocket-sized portfolios of my work. One for Paintings, one for Prints, and one for Drawings. Images on regular text weight paper (for paintings and drawings), and the print designs I actually printed onto vellum, which gives them a bit of translucense.. sy. Then I adhered all images to the pages of the book (made of white cardstock and considerably thicker than I would have really wanted), then I made a book cover out of black cardstock with a slight woven-y criss-crossy pattern to it to appear like the plastic casing you frequently find on real portfolios.

Unfortunately, I didn’t create the closure how I really wanted. (it’s got double-stick tape holding it down in that picture) I was going to thread a small piece of wine colored ribbon from both the front and the flap, and tie it together in a bow. I also wanted to write “Paintings” etc., on the covers of each, but the stamp I bought just isn’t big enough so I might have to buy some stamping supplies to do it nicely. (Or not. I’m putting enough money into it as it is!!)

I admitted to all my cheats!! lol What’s wrong with me?? But I like the idea of pocket-sized portfolios so much, that I may recreate them only spend 4x as much time on them. (Plus it was fun making them.)