ABC – it’s easy as 123 – you and me…..
I haven’t done a cutting file for a while so I thought I would do one. So I went simple or should I say ‘easy’. I haven’t use this file on a layout yet, but I have all of my son’s school pages to do at some point. So these will fill in nicely when I get around to it.
Included in the zip file: abc_123.zip
#1: Make an illustration using only solid shapes with no internal details. The shapes should be recognizable as the objects they represent.
Assignment #3 is here (I did that one first).
#2: Fill a drawing space with a series of lines each of which conveys a different emotion.
Okay – so some of these aren’t exactly what the exercise called for, but abstract is abstract.
#1 Create an abstracted image by starting with a realistic illustration and alter it.
This one I did, it’s not really a part of the assignment, but it was fun: 
#2 Make an image by depicting an object in extreme close-up or at an odd angle so that it’s not immediately recognizable.
#3 Make a visual pun by combining two different objects.
#4 Create an image using nonrepresentational abstract.
Exercise #3: Make a drawing that includes each kind of line: actual, implied and imaginary.
I am all about multi-uses for things, so here I go again.
I have done a couple of these books before, so I made two styles this time. I am talking about Word Books – where the pages are cut into letters and when put together they make a word. Then you customize them by adding pictures and other things to tell a story.
These are tedious to draw, and even more tedious to put the background paper on, but when it’s all done they are so darling. I made two of these this week and gave them along with the notecards I posted earlier to the silent auction to help my friends raise the money they need to the 3-Day Breast Cancer walk in August.
This is my traditional wordbook. You have background papers on each page and then the actual letter in an accent color. You can embellish the letters also.
On the second book, I took a themed package of paper out of my wall of paper and it just happened to have enough coordinated colors/patterns to work for this book. After I had put the background paper I had laid it out on my work table and I loved how your eye completed the letters on the pages.
Now to my tie into Chapter 4 – Line…This book shows all three types of line:
Both of these books were cut using the same pattern: myFamilyWordBook
Included in the zip file are:
#1: Make an illustration using only solid shapes with no internal details. The shapes should be recognizable as the objects they represent.
#3: Illustrate a poem or song by arranging the text into a shape. An alternative exercise would be to repeat the same word over and over in the shape of the object that it names.
The art of scrapbooking is to seeing a second or third or more, use for something. Being a scrapbooker, after I drew the Lily for chapter 4, my mind started thinking ‘what else could I do with this file.”
Well sometime ago, I had purchased the adapter and pens to use on my cricut machine and being that I had the other machine too I got pens that fit that one also. It’s been about two years since I got this stuff and I have yet to use them. So putting 2 + 2 together – I thought “Why not? Let’s see how it works.”
So I loaded up the mini-sharpee pens into the holder for the KNK and sent it off to write/cut. Then I had to decide what to do with them…A group of local women are doing the 3-Day Breast Cancer walk here in Minnesota in August and they are having a Silent Auction this weekend to help raise the money ($2300/per walker).
On one of the cards, I stamped “hello”, just to give it a little something extra.
So there it is, I have used this same image for three things
One of the assignments from my assigned reading.
Chapter 4 – Exercise 1: Choose a photographic image and reproduce it as a drawing, using only line. Include as much detail as possible but do not include any shading only contours. See what else I did with this file
