Monday, March 30, 2009

Fan Books


The name of this project is "I Am My Biggest Fan." Students create a fun book that expresses different aspects of their personality.
Here is a brief synopsis of the project....
An 18 x 24 piece of tagboard is painted freely with acrylic paints in a variety of colors. When dry, contrasting colors of paint are applied using bubble wrap, plastic screen, and other found objects to stamp with. Templates are then used to draw body shapes on the back. These are cut out and become the pages.

A list of 15 to 18 words and descriptive phrases is generated and printed. Each word and phrase must tell some aspect of your personality. These are cut out and applied to the pages. Faces must be found or drawn and applied to each page.
When additional embellishment is completed, everything is held together at the bottom with buttons and cord. The book fans open to reveal the contents.

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9 comments:

  1. andrea30 March, 2009 20:46

    What an interesting project.Sounds like fun to do.

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  2. Audrey02 April, 2009 06:49

    That's really cool! They actually have to use their imagination, very nice.

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  3. Ann Renee Lighter02 April, 2009 07:42

    Thanks for your nice comments!
    My students seem to really enjoy the fan books and I have fun seeing all of their imaginative ideas.
    It's interesting to visually explore the varied aspects of one's personality. This could also be done in a standard format visual journal, dividing the page into sections. We all have so many different roles in life...... what would your page look like?

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  4. Sandy06 April, 2009 05:49

    These are really cool. What a creative idea. Makes the person making it think a bit about themselves. What fun!

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  5. whyte06 April, 2009 06:00

    Awesome work Ann! Love the fan books! Lots of intricate work and time there! Saw your post in the etsy forum, glad to meet you!

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  6. reagan06 April, 2009 07:45

    Gorgeous work! I came here by way of the etsy forum thread.

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  7. Artsnark06 April, 2009 08:42

    What fun! Fabulous blog

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  8. Ann Renee Lighter06 April, 2009 14:47

    Greetings to my fellow Etsyians.
    Thanks for making the trip over to check out my blog. Your comments are all appreciated!

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  9. Sheila06 April, 2009 16:17

    This looks very interesting. What a creative idea!!

    ~Sheila

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