Carolyn, Project Book, "Palms"

Project Book, Translation #2

Although I felt rushed to complete my project book, it came out as well as, or better than my altered book. I loved the idea of doing a smaller book on one theme. This would be a terrific assignment for an advanced art student. I teach digital photography and it might be a good project for one of my art III or IV students who have also had photography and could combine some of their images, like I did, with other art forms. I am going to teach the transfer techniques to my advanced students and they can incorporate some of those into this assignment. The assignment could be done from the beginning by creating the book. Then they could choose a theme, possibly combining the found drawing idea or using a shape like Kim did with her circles or like I did with a natural element and/or play on words. It would help them to pick something that was personally meaningful, even if they wanted to change that in some way, like Laura did with her corn book. They could choose 5 media to use so they wouldn't get carried away and have something that is similar on all the pages to provide unity. I think they could do a good job with two weeks to complete it.