Die Fahrrad-Hexe

Last quarter I had to write a children's book 

....in German aka Kinderbuch.

So that was fun.

I titled it "Die Fahrrad-Hexe"

which in English means, The Bicycle Witch!

I am so clever, I know.

Anyways, I had to make illustrations or pictures to go along

with the story. So my friend Tara helped me create awesome

characters out of clay and National Geographic backdrops.

Here it is:

I glued pages of a magazine together, and then glued my pictures in it to make it look like a real book

These are the photos that were in the book.

of course there is a dragon (Drahe) in my story

BATTLE

The cover. I miss Picnik already :(

Roll of film Wednesday... but on Monday... Part two

You know I can't hold off showing

you all my newly developed film.

I only lasted four days. I think that's long enough.

I must admit I like this half of the roll better, hopefully you will too!

p.s. check out part one here!

xxx

Maggie, from the band Youth. I know it's terrible quality, but I really loved the fire in the background.

Matt, slappin' the bass, also from the band Youth. They're great. You should listen to them. Again, apologies for the quality, or lack thereof. 

Where the magic happens--- waffle iron at work. See all the caramelized goodness??? 

My daily Saturday morning view, except add a line of people around the corner. Looking out the Window at---- The Waffle Window.

Inside/Outside on the Hawthorne bridge, on the 14 bus. 

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Making fun shadow puppets at our favorite Lebanese place called Habibi.

Favorite bathroom I've used in Portland. Located in the Valentines bar. This night, some guy bought everyone who wanted one a Pabst. I love PDX.

Another one for my future "bathrooms that I've been in and liked" blog.

On my way to Washington Park

Self-Portrait of a photographer, and some fun brick design!

False Spring! I love you! Too bad it's over. And I have no idea what happened to the film at bottom.

My second favorite picture ever, because my camera can't even do double exposures, and look at this magic! You can see the beautiful Mt. Hood in the distance. Really though, I need a new camera.

Now listen to Youth and look through all the pictures again?

Pottery Barn Collage

While I was hangin' at the Parker's last night I made this little collage. I call it "Pot tery Barn"

Final collage project

This project was about anyone you had a relationship with, and to create something that has to do with that person. I picked my boyfriend, Zack, who really loves astronomy, cameras and longboarding. I didn't have any vision or idea of what I was going to do for this project prior to starting it. It all just came together as I went. That big half sphere symbolizing the night sky is made from paper mache. My favorite part of this is the mini telescope I built from cardboard and the photo collage of Zack in his WWII uniform. I had many prints of this photo in different shades, so I just cut and pasted different parts of the photo on top of another photo.

Sind sie sicher?... Text project

The back of the piece.

I am in love with this old photograph, so perfect in so many ways.

The 3Dness of my project.

One of my favorite projects of the semester in my collage class. The only requirement was to involve text in some way, so I collaged the back of the box with pages from an old dictionary and a map. The images are from postcards that I found at the Salvation Army-- such a good find! I wrote "Sind sie sicher" in red nail polish. I chose this German phrase because it has a dual meaning-- Are you sure? and Are you safe?

 and I love the duality of both of those.

Swing to Heaven

This collage project was to create a landscape using only fabric. I used one of my favorite pictures from Germany of Zack and I sitting on a swing with our feet up and the beautiful black forest in the background. You can see the picture in my Deutschland page.

Close up of the fabrics and textures.

Little Amsterdam

For this project in my collage class, we had to create a story board of a dream we had or basically anything... I am obsessed with the little houses in Amsterdam, so I decided to recreate a little Amsterdam.

The bike is my favorite :)
All this was made out of matte board, paint, and a bit of cardboard.