Amanda Gibson

We had to pick a song from the 60's, 70's, or 80's and do a metaphorical image. I did How Deep is Your Love by the Bee Gees.


 This is the final.

This was a fortune cookie project. We had to make a metaphorcal picture.
I did someone on vacation in an hour glass. Mine was "take some time out for yourself".
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Here is the sculpture and scene I made. I have some more pictures that I will post later on. *


These are some snazzy pictures our teacher took with his camera. I'll get some more detailed shots to put here because I don't have a ground shot, and I made little mushrooms and pine cones (despite there being no pine trees around X-D). The bark also has a texture and I made the tree out of paper and glue and all that messy stuff. Those stringy bits you see hanging out there are fiber optic doodly bits. It was hard to set that up within the leaves and everything. It didn't work the way I wanted it to (you can only really see it well in pitch black). Those tissue paper leaves were all put on individually. It was very painful because I had to cut them all out, sew some of them together, and glue on each and every last leaf. It took a day, and I stopped counting after 741 leaves...so there's probably close to 1000.

These are some shots that I took. I'll get some better shots of the cat because I spent a lot of time on him too. His fur is made of rabbit fur. I had to glue it on with care. If you ever use rabbit fur DO NOT get rid of the skin holding it together. I did and rabbit hair went flying everywhere (not fun to get in your nose). If you take the skin off you have to form the hair into strips (by brushing glue onto the ends), wait for them to dry, and layer them on. The tail was the most difficult because I had to layer white and brownish orange. I used fishing line for the whiskers.

Here are some shots of Alice. I used real human hair for her hair. Where did I get this human hair? my sister fell asleep...X-D Don't worry I asked her. I had to gather it into strips, glue the ends and then layer it on. She looked like a bald monk at one point. X-D

She is made of Sculpey and I used model paint for her face. I made a mold for her legs. They are actually not Sculpey but a sturdy foam clay. I switched to the foam clay because I was having some balance issues (she wouldn't stand on her own). It's odd but it worked better than her sculpey legs...though she still does fall over sometimes. I made a stand just to make sure she wouldn't.

Her dress Is also made of Foam clay, and I layered some tissue paper on top. I painted her dress blue, but rather than creating shadow or gradient by painting, I layered blue tissue paper on top. I liked how there were no brush strokes and it looked a little more like a piece of clothing might.

We also had to make storyboards of our story (one pivotal scene). These are my Rough Storyboards. Again I have to get the back but when I do I will post them here. The coloured ones are a lot more refined and the text has been shortened down and such.



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In 2nd year we did yet another narrative of our choice (well we got to pick from a list). I did Alice in Wonderland.
This was another rough that I decided to not go with. I'll put the refined one too aswell. It's the scene at the end where she wakes up (after being attacked by cards) to find she was sleeping on her sisters lap. The cards would have seemed like they were fading away. It's a bit hard to read sometimes.
This was a more refined rough of the scene (*remind me to get that little rough). After I draw something in a linear way, If I'm still having trouble refining something, I'll often sculpt it (out of plastercine, though if you use that, don't let it near the paper you are drawing on unless you like stain glass). This project actually had us make a sculpture and a scene so I was able to do both things at the same time.





Here is a final grey scale. I'll update this post when I get to a bigger scanner because these pictures are not the greatest. I also have a colour version that I'm getting back, so when I get it I'll post it here. Her hair is brown and her dress is that well known light blue. The Chesire cat in mine is actually orange and white. For now here is a rough colour version.

This was one of my most loved projects. We had to create a decorative design that involved the elements.


Here I was playing with negative space and such. I wanted to see what it would look like if the lines didn't overlap much.

This was a project in year 2 where we had to take an article and draw an image (somewhat metaphorical or symbolic). I got an article about running and how when you get older you need to slow down.