2D flip art

In this piece of work, the task was to make a page in a 2D flip book. This is how I did it, with pictures of some of the steps.

1. We got given an old, unused book by our teacher, Miss Gardiner. 

2. We then looked through it, and drew a mindmap, with some of our ideas for designs. 

3. From this, we picked out one or two ideas, and drew out a design featuring them. I chose the tree and log idea because I thought it would look the best and be the easiest (!) Unfortunately, I got this wrong and it turned out to be quite difficult. 

4. We then glued 4 or 5 pages together in the centre of our book- we did this twice so that we had some nice, thick paper card to work on.

5. Then came the main part!! We had to transfer our design onto our pages, and then cut around them. We then scored the ends so that they would stand up. However... Mine didn't work amazingly- I managed to cut through a few of the papers of the tree so that it was very weak, and I made my foreground logs a lot taller than the background trees, so you couldn't see them very well! Anyway, here are some photos of my final piece.

To be honest, I was a little upset with my work; all of the composition didn't work (the logs were taller than the trees(!)). I wasn't so keen on the book colour- I would have preferred a plain book. 

One artist that does very similar pieces of art work to this is Su Blackwell. She also cuts out shapes related to the book and flips them up. However, her work is definitely a lot more complex than mine!! Here is some of her work. Her work is also a lot more concise- the trees are more effective, and they stand so much more neatly! The overall ideas are definitely a lot more interesting than mine- I found the Alice: a mad tea party quite interesting. 

Alice: a mad tea party



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