I talked about my Junior Seminar art project/show in my last entry. Here are photos of my project. I made a large oversized journal with places I want to travel to inside. Each painting has the official national animal of each country I want to travel to. The paintings are acrylic medium, but also used mixed media such as vintage maps, string, bubble wrap and fabric.
The covers of the journal form a full map of the world when opened up. The land parts are collaged with maps from various places.
I actually didn't originally plan to make a journal, but I ended up binding all my paintings together. I ended up doing a simple cross stitch with white string. It wasn't too hard to bind it, but it took a while because of how big it is.
The front side of the pages is a painting of an animal in a landscape. The back side has collaged maps and other things of the place each page represents. Here's the first page, a white tailed deer from Costa Rica:
And the back:
This is a fox from London. I used a watch as the nose of the fox to represent the famous clock in London and the fast paced life of people who live there:
This is a panda bear from China:
This is the first one I did, a swan from Denmark:
This picture I took in the process, so the newspaper wasn't painted over yet:
These are elephants from Thailand:
This is a peacock from India:
The next one is a polar bear from Greenland:
This is a leopard from Somalia, Africa:
And lastly, I have dolphins from Greece:
Sorry I don't have photos of the backs of all the paintings. Let me know what you think of my project. Hopefully, I'll get to travel to these places one day!
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