Book Making

My Little Book of Surrealism

I still have quite a lot to do for this Complementary Studies Module. I haven't started a sketch book. I have attended all except one of the workshops and completed my practice books. Now I'm thinking about my final submission, a book that we have to craft ourselves and choose a subject that relates to our own photography practice.

Sensing Light

I had initially intended to use my Chasing Shadows, Sensing Light project, but on reflection I think my Allotment project would work better. My idea was to make A Little Book of Metaphors, but Marcus advised me that I shouldn't use too many words. I'm thinking of using short, sharp sentences of no more than four words.

I've been searching through my Allotment images; I have so many. I've been photographing the space since October 2010. I need a theme .........the flowers and plants, the re-cycled items, the benches and chairs, my favourite places .. ..... I'm not limited in my choice which probably makes the decision more difficult.

A New Sketch Book 

Book Making had originally been my second Complementary Studies choice, my first choice had been Creative Writing.  I requested a change because I had read about an artist who creates a limited number of books to accompany his Exhibitions. I thought this was a really good idea. I love books, one of the many reasons I enrolled on this Degree Course was to increase my image making confidence, develop my creative skills, and I knew I wanted to make photographic books or journals.

The module has been a welcome release from academic study. I looked forward to Thursday afternoons when I knew that being completely focused on making my books, everything else would leave my head. It was an almost zen like. I was totally engrossed in what I was doing, I was "in the moment" and thoroughly enjoying the processes.

Now, I need to choose my final images, and then consider the text I will add. I want to have completed this by Tuesday so that I can submit the files to Creations for printing. I will have to use Photoshop to size the images and save them as Tiffs which will add time as I am not a Photoshop fan.