Lily and Ernie
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 1:30PM
Working through Jessica Sprague and Heidi Swapp’s Mouse Paper Scissors Give course materials yesterday, I decided to swerve off the given path and, instead of using the digital files provided, I’d create something about my grandparents.
Though I wouldn’t say the finished project is really to my taste, I will certainly use the ideas and techniques involved over and again – the Photoshop processes alone are worth the cost of the class, so useful are they.
I’m lucky to have a bit of ephemera from my grandparents’ lives: their wedding certificate, Grandad’s war record and Nan’s school report from 1912 (“She is clean and tidy, polite and well-behaved and very clever with her needle. She is a big, fine girl, capable of doing much hard work and very willing” – destined for “service”, most surely, though that was not to be). I used scans of those documents in the collaged background and then build the film strip from photographs of them both.
I really loved making the flowers, risking life and limb as I played with fire! Definitely something to do more of, though sadly, not at all the kind of thing to teach in a class.
It’s very nearly finished, then. I just need to sort something out for the lower left hand corner as an alternative to the bird motif supplied. I shall see what I can come up with.
Reader Comments (2)
Your project really looks creative even though it's not finished yet. I'm excited to see the finished one. It will surely look amazing.
Hi Gill,
Looking good.... mine is about my Mum and Dad but I am still collecting the bits together.
I am enjoying this workshop.