A Tuscan Holiday

This Victoria long weekend I decided to break my no starting projects rule and started a new project. Fortunately I managed to complete it and another project the same weekend so SCORE!
This piece spurred from my other project which was mainly decoupage related. I decided to play around with decoupaging magazine clippings onto a cheap canvas and with the use of ink and acrylic paint create a setting or scene.
Overall I'm satisfied with the results. 

Making Letters Move

The images are the product of an assignment I did in typography class. The purpose of the assignment was to create movement with type that described specific words. Students were to apply their knowledge of the six organizing principles of design; radiation, opposition, transition, direction, repetition and proportion. The use of kerning was encouraged while the use in color was not.

Overall, I had alot of fun with the assignment. It was interesting to see and hear the creative process which some classmates used for this assignment. For example, to image search the word rage on google is not recommended. 

Alice In Wonderland Hair Pieces

The following photographs are of some of the hairpieces I created for a Japanese themed Alice in Wonderland photoshoot.  Each of the pieces are made of beads, a deck of cards, ribbons, chopsticks which were all hot glued to an origami shape.
The process took a lot of time, most of it spent cursing at the paper as I tried to get to the cardstock paper fold properly without ripping. My main reasoning for using cardstock paper rather than origami paper was one of convenience and durability, especially since these pieces were going to be pinned into hair and would have to stay there for a couple of hours.
For more information on origami please check out the following link, Origami Resource Center.

Mad March's hair piece made up of a broken silver watch face, playboy bunny key and various tea and cup charms.

The Door Mouses Hair piece. This was the first of the hair pieces and therefore the most difficult to make. The color selection was based off of fabric used for the Door Mouse's kimono. The charms chosen where all heart shaped.

The white rabbit hairpiece is by far one of my projects and is made up of a house of cards, a single antique looking watch face, a key and a few rose shaped brass beads.