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I'm making a dresser.
I already cut out a rectangle in the dictionary; I need to smooth the lines out a bit, but otherwise, I'm done with that. With the rest of the pages, I'm going to make it look like a bedroom dresser, put stuff on it (including a mini easel and painting that I'll get and paint either tomorrow or Monday), and use two or three small boxes to make drawers that'll actually pull out to reveal something. (Not sure on that yet.) I got some silver cardstocky paper that I'll use as the mirror above the dresser's surface. Wanted an actual mirror, but I didn't measure the size of the cutout before I went to Michael's yesterday, so paper will have to do. As for the miniature painting, I think it might be a mini version of the "still life self-portrait" we did back in Beginning Painting. I can bring a picture of it to show my classmates if they want to see the full-size one.
... And a day after I typed this, I FINALLY finished cutting out the grooves for the drawers. Holy CRAP that took forever. I kept running into the problem of cutting a narrower hole the deeper I went and having to fix it. Waiting for the glue to dry on the pages (again) and for the paint on the boxes to dry before I glue the covers for the drawers into the book. I still haven't put anything on the book yet! I'm still making the thing look like a dresser. -_- Once I'm done, I'm thinking I'm going to just load it with stuff, because I'm not the neatest person in the world and my desks always gets cluttered with crap. XD;; The things I cut out from the other book could be posters. Tempted to take the 11" x14"canvas board I still haven't used yet and use it as a wall behind the dresser, especially since I need to find a way to prop up the mirror side of the dictionary. I could put the cutouts on that, maybe design some mini posters to look like things on my actual walls. The only problem, still, is what to put in the drawers. I have three 12"x12" sheets of styrofoam that I'm thinking of cutting into different shapes and painting. Paintbrush(es), palette, something video game-related.
Anyway, now that I'm done drawing, the rest of the process should go pretty quickly. Yay for that. Thing's due in two days. And then we have ANOTHER project due. ^^; I just hope this one comes out the way I want it to. I swear, I've had to do more sculpture in this class than I've EVER done. The problem-solving aspect of it is kind of fun, though.
I already cut out a rectangle in the dictionary; I need to smooth the lines out a bit, but otherwise, I'm done with that. With the rest of the pages, I'm going to make it look like a bedroom dresser, put stuff on it (including a mini easel and painting that I'll get and paint either tomorrow or Monday), and use two or three small boxes to make drawers that'll actually pull out to reveal something. (Not sure on that yet.) I got some silver cardstocky paper that I'll use as the mirror above the dresser's surface. Wanted an actual mirror, but I didn't measure the size of the cutout before I went to Michael's yesterday, so paper will have to do. As for the miniature painting, I think it might be a mini version of the "still life self-portrait" we did back in Beginning Painting. I can bring a picture of it to show my classmates if they want to see the full-size one.
... And a day after I typed this, I FINALLY finished cutting out the grooves for the drawers. Holy CRAP that took forever. I kept running into the problem of cutting a narrower hole the deeper I went and having to fix it. Waiting for the glue to dry on the pages (again) and for the paint on the boxes to dry before I glue the covers for the drawers into the book. I still haven't put anything on the book yet! I'm still making the thing look like a dresser. -_- Once I'm done, I'm thinking I'm going to just load it with stuff, because I'm not the neatest person in the world and my desks always gets cluttered with crap. XD;; The things I cut out from the other book could be posters. Tempted to take the 11" x14"canvas board I still haven't used yet and use it as a wall behind the dresser, especially since I need to find a way to prop up the mirror side of the dictionary. I could put the cutouts on that, maybe design some mini posters to look like things on my actual walls. The only problem, still, is what to put in the drawers. I have three 12"x12" sheets of styrofoam that I'm thinking of cutting into different shapes and painting. Paintbrush(es), palette, something video game-related.
Anyway, now that I'm done drawing, the rest of the process should go pretty quickly. Yay for that. Thing's due in two days. And then we have ANOTHER project due. ^^; I just hope this one comes out the way I want it to. I swear, I've had to do more sculpture in this class than I've EVER done. The problem-solving aspect of it is kind of fun, though.
