Charity Water Project *Poster & Cards*

The other part of the project was to create awareness, and in order to do so, we as a class, decided to create posters and post cards.

I started with this drawing, but had not decided on what wording I wanted to use just yet. I like how its a gift, and water for some people is a gift and its something we take for granted.




Next I took my drawing and scanned it into photoshop and used it as a template to draw it in Illustrator. I also added text. I used this template to make a stencil for our postcards.




This is how my postcard turned out. I tried it with some different colors, but I liked the blue the best because of water.




I made a larger stencil for a hand made poster, but I printed off the font and just used the bow and bottled water to stencil.




And finally I used the file I created in illustrator for my digital file as well.



I liked my drawing the most because of the extra detail, but when you start thinking stencil that changes everything.


Instead of sending out a mass email, I created a group on facebook, and sent invitation out to all my friends. Check out my group. I used my digital poster too.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=38401394405

Charity Water Project *Chandelier* - part 2-

On our second workday we were able to finish up, minus how we were going to hang it, but it turned out nicely. We added more than we thought, but it was a good addition, and named it the Jellyfish Chandelier. Here are some final photos.



Close up of the spheres



Close up of the addition, to give it more of a cascading look.



And one with the lights out



I really enjoyed this project, I was glad to be doing something that was more hands on.

Charity Water Project * Chandelier*

So we decided that we were going to make a Chandelier out of empty Bottled Water containers.... We broke up into groups and brain stormed different chandeliers, and ways that we could use the materials we had. Finally, we decided as a class we would break up into groups, and make 3 different chandeliers. Here is what we got done on the first work day.



We cut the bottles, and used the middle of them to create sphere around each light.





For our structure we used an old bike wheel frame, the I got from a friend of mine, and lisa spray panited it a nice silver color.



After our first work day, we were able to cover all the lights, and decided we would need another string of lights to make have more coverage. Here is what our work got us to on the first day.



Its a great start, and now we know what we will need for next class, More water bottles, lights, and another coat of paint.

- Oscar Wilde - Final Thoughts

Below you will find the final ten pieces that I chose to go into our book. Overall, I like the ones I chose, but I also wish I had more time to think about this project and work through the thoughts I was having.

Again, I feel that the class focus on more beauty then corruption, which says something about either our class, or our society. If I could do this project again, and was in a place where I could handle the topic that I would choose, I think I would have focused more on corruption. I feel that because we showed our choices almost every week, the as a group we went with what the majority was doing rather than going with those ideas that we had.

Anyways, I would have done more of my compositions by hand, rather than photography, even though it is what I tend to go to. And I would focus on the war. From what I saw put up in class, my images were the only two that touched on the subject. So if I could create the images in my head, and have time to do so, I think that I would have chosen all of my composition to be about that.

So ideas I had were going to the VA hospital and talking with Vets, putting in images that I have when I think about the war and my fathers death. I have more information then I really need to know about how he died, and it could make for some interesting images.

Anyways, just some thoughts I have had after we finished this project.

- Oscar Wilde - FInal Choices Cont..

- Oscar Wilde - FInal Choices

- Oscar Wilde - part 3.5

With these compositions, The top two are to continue with nature and its beauty. The flower I had in a previous set of photos, but I cropped it and made it focus on the center of the flower giving it more white space (since we are organizing the book based on amounts of black to whites). With the two below, I had notices that a lot of people were doing more beautiful things the corrupt and corruption is half the idea to our project. I had thought of these before, but as they are really close to me, I found it hard to make myself do them. The first being my fathers grave stone and photos from his memorial service, and the second being a statue that they put up when there is a fall solider.

- Oscar Wilde - part 3

The next class we went over the last of our compositions to see if they all should get in. I have to put half here, and then the other half in a second post. With these compositions , still was leaning towards something more playful and youthful, in the other half you will see a drastic change. I will talk about that more in a little bit. I wanted to include some nature but not too much as I had notices that there were many other people who were doing the same thing. I picked my cat because she is still a kitten, and really curious, something i feel we loose as we get older. Another composition that has the same thought in might our the couple making snow angels. Whens the last time you made a snow angle? Then I included some love because is was a topic we talked about and two because it reminds me of youthful love. More to come with my next post.