Ideas for book...

Though I began this project thinking that I would relate a story from my childhood, I have begun to consider changing my idea.  I'd like to create instructions for using my cardboard machine sculptures.  I want to be able to print them on one sheet of paper and fold them into tiny booklets.  I've been attempting all different folding techniques.  As the final piece, I think I'll print out forty or so and pass them out at thee faculty critique with my artist statement.  Perhaps they could even be my artist statement!  We'll see how it goes...

Prints

I know it is against the rules, but I am compelled to divide the list of randomly selected words into three images instead of using them all in the first image and going from there.  I just already know exactly what I want to paint for all three prints and no matter how hard I try to smoosh all the ideas into one image, I can't let myself do it.  I want these to be small square paintings.  I've always wanted to make a whole wall of tiny paintings.  Maybe this will be the beginning of an even bigger series...

Image I
Treehouse

Midnight

Wind

Image II

Sea
Barnacles

Image III
Exhilaration

Michaela

Mural Ideas...

We've been brainstorming and all agree that we want to work somehow with text. We weren't sure exactly what that would look like, so we all did "sketches" of what we'd each like to make the subject of the mural. Many of us had landscapes and city scapes. We realized pretty quickly that a city scape would make more sense. The city is the center of culture, art, and creativity. We are each now going to work on a few buildings to show how text can be used to depict buildings. Here are mine:

Mailer

THE LIST

Michaela
Sea
Wind
Exhilaration
Treehouse
Barnacles
Midnight

Copal

Composite

I borrowed a photograph of a tree from the internet, then sprinkled the branches with colorful birds from a poster of birds of the forest that I found online.