Visual Haiku Final Project

This is it for the year!!!

"Book Making :)" >>> Visual Haiku Study Books

All of my haiku studies books are completed. I made three of them, only because I have to have things perfect and I could not mix colors together. So I made one for atmospheres, black and white gestures, and stencils.

My background book:

All of the pages inside are suppose to look and feel like trees so I used a slice from a tree as the cover. My dad helped me chainsaw a piece of firewood this weekend.

My first time using coptic stitching. It actually came out pretty cool looking!

And some pages in the book. I love using this stitching because it allows the cover to fully open.

My Stencil Studies Book:

I love the cover for it, that is actually one of the stencils I had been using.

A page in the book. And I am using this method of putting texture under stencils on my paintings.

And I made pockets for all of my stencils. Well I put the best ones inside the book and you simply pull them out.

My Form & Gesture Studies book:

Just some little details of the book. Originally i planned to stab bind them but then I realized my birds would be cut off from the inch of sewn paper. So I resulted with this method instead, which I actually really like!

And the left side in the book was forms while the right side was gestures.

"Pre Planning Is Not Always The Best Idea" >>> Visual Haiku Process

I began sketching some thumbnails of how my paintings will ultimately look. And so far they do not look like these. Oh well, I'm just kind of guessing as i go.

My dad helped me cut some MDF board into 2 x 4 ft pieces.

and then i premiered them all and covered one with fabric.

"The Day We Waited For" >>> Inlfatopia Fair

Finally, we had our Inflatable fair. We had been working on it for weeks, but it all paid off and everything turned out GREAT!!! I really enjoyed working with the group I had. It was a wonderful group, that actually made me like group projects just a little bit!

a map of everyones inflatable locations

a flyer I made to attract visitors....it worked!!

XXit :)

Even a businessman came!

A LONG line for people wanting henna

a bunch of people relaxing in the inflatable

our first henna tattoo :)

the team logo

and our inflatable!

"Phew" >>> Inflatopia Process

We ironed the panels to the inflatopia and finally blew it up again. It worked great!! And Bill was happy to finally see it, he had been waiting for days!!!

Than we decided to cut our windows out and paint around the windows with some Henna inspired designs.

The ropes and grommets had ALOT of pressure on them, but worked great!

And we felt like it was missing something....paint on the front! So Agnes with her incredible Henna abilities jumped up and began painting.

ta da!!!

there was a rainbow out right after we got the inflatable completed. But you can't really see it in this picture..it must of been good luck though!!! :)

"Blow POP" >>> Inflatopia Process

Friday in class, we blew our inflatble up for the first time. It loooked just like I thought it would...a mushroom. But thats because our "buttons" have not been added yet! Sohopefully next time their will be more room to go inside in.

We began blowing it up

And our hose was very filled with air, maybe a little too much. The front of our inflatble totally ripped!!! :( But we patched it and its good to go.

And theresa inside of it. After the buttons their will be much more room.

Honestly, I am a bit worried about our inflatable. But We have a really good gorup, so we WILL be able to solve our problems and create a masterpiece :)

"Feel The Wind" >>> Visual Haiku Process

I began working on my atmospherical backgrounds. I am really loving my color palette. I love dark warm colors! I have been using a bunch of sifferent methods, but I think I might do some at home....maybe I will work better again! But i am trying to make a tree like background and also have a little bit of a windy effect to it. They seem to be going farely well!

"Stencil Me In" >>> Visual Haiku Process

I have also been working on my stenciled haikus. The stencils took forever to make, but I ended up with about five different ones. I have yet to use spray paint on them, that will be tomorrow. Im using manilla paper, the coor goes great with my color pallete!

I will definetley hold on to my stencils. Maybe place them in my book, who knows I might be stenciling a bird again soon!

I have one more stencil to make, but actually a sponge. It seems like it might last a little longer!

"Older Things" >>> Inflatopia Process

After i made my previous post for the inflatable, i found some more interesting pictures on Theresa's blog. so again all these pictures are from her!!!! I'm glad she takes sooo many pictures!

this is the model for our inflatable.

and then we changed to this design, but went back to the original idea. soo many decisions in this project!

testing iron with the plastic. you have to be super steady.

and the scraps from the sides of the inflatable. Theresa and I rounded all of the corners.

amanda making a hole to place the leaf blower.