Experimentation:
I didn’t know where to start, so I started experimenting media or sort of say the “background” canvas. Before I knew I had coffee, I took an unfinished bottle of vanilla coke that had been sitting in my room. I poured some in a plastic bag with the paper, and let it sit for around 30minutes and more. These were the results.
After finding ground coffee mix, I also painted the paper which worked faster.
My initial idea was to create a play of words.
The book that I first found was a full edited script of “The Darker Face of the Earth”, a play by Rita Dove. Reading through, I found that it was handling such serious matter, somewhat hard for kids to comprehend.
The word “Play” usually gives people a positive vibe, or somewhat happy i thought. So I also thought of making a “playful” toy for kids to play with the actual “play”.
So I started working on these paper dolls, and I wanted to make it very vintage looking so I went over with coffee and dried it.
I felt like that wasn’t successful. So I took a break and did my laundry with my friends. And in the laundry room, I found this “Pillsbury’s Bake Off Dessert Cook Book”. Inside it, I found cut outs of magazine recipes, very vintage and flat.
The book itself was way more interesting than the play book I had, more colors and aesthetic-wise.
I started cutting out things and started making collages
I do not know what I’m doing.. I need help and advice….. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH