You can also just about see in the close-up shot (on the red cloud-shaped bit) that some of the pieces have de-bossing on them ... Also the word "paaarp!/JAZZ" has a mechanism that makes it swing out as you open the page.
It feels like I'm working 24/7 at the moment .... looking forward to the end of January (already!) when we get a couple of weeks off while the tutors get busy with the marking ... in the meantime, here's an explosion of paper mechanics ...(work in progress!)
We are exploring two processes in our 'Process and Practise' module - one is print, and the other is paper mechanics. I had been waiting for this set of workshops since I started this course! And now we have FOUR one day sessions with the extraordinary Mr Duncan Birmingham (he's SUCH a nice guy...).
This isn't a very flattering picture of my coursemates I'm afraid, but I just wanted to give you a sense of the explosion of colored paper in the studio earlier this week.
We're making a 'pop-up sketchbook', ie Duncan is going through the basic techniques with us and we're making them as we go along and writing notes on our pop-ups and embellishing them. We have him for 4 sessions (over 4 weeks). This week was fundamentals; next week building on those and more complex mechanisms; the following week we're doing things like pull tabs and such; and in the last week he's going to work with us individually on our projects (we have to make two double page spreads, again on the theme of culture)...
Here's my set of pages from this week - I'm SO happy to be doing this :) ....
