This past semester I taught design at SUNY Cobleskill again, and I tried a really crazy idea for the final project. After learning about line, shape, texture, color, etc....I had them create altered books as the final.
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| Erik B reworking a Bible! He had music as his theme and revealed that music was spiritual for him. |
They needed to create at least 4 sections, and design the cover--keeping some kind of unity and theme across the book.
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| The very prolific Gaby D works on her altered '70s biology book, giving it a hippy rainbow attitude. |
It was a month long journey, with the students going crazy over these books.
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| Melique G drawing in his unique raw style within his altered Encyclopedia. |
I watched the whole thing unfold and as they worked on them, I learned as much as they did.
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| Brittany S covered her book with leather and made an enclosure out of a nail she plucked out of the wall in class. |
The various ways they tackled the theme, the interesting things they did with their pages, their utter involvement, it was just fascinating and I am so glad I decided to go this route as the final!
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| Josh T completely covered this book with gesso, and then created a masterpiece book about rain |
The rewards for stepping out of our boxes are many.
4 comments:
Sounds like loads of fun. You should post the finished books, I would love to see them!
I agree, would love to see photos of the finished books. :)
I know! i wish I had time to scan them! I just returned from my daughters' wedding and had to immediately give them back to the students!
I plan on doing this again in the fall, this time with some experience!!
:)
so great to see the next generation getting into it so intensely..
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