Olivia * AP art

 Materials: paper, lighter, book page Idea: “alone with desire” is the sentence, though not seen here. Often times, fire is associated with desire, so I decided to try out burning the edges of paper and burning holes for the words to stand out. Above is the layout I’ve been thinking. I might also make the paper look more aged, not just burned. The top right corner piece was my “sample” or tester, take make sure I know what I’m doing and doing it safely because fire is dangerous :D

  Materials: watercolor pencil, sharpie, book page Process: found a sentence on a random book page, sketched out the rough design of the lines connecting words, enlarged and printed book page on larger cardstock, sketched out design of hand and rope, erased all words excluding found sentence to make the words I wanted to be seen more clearly, colored with water color pencils and really went around the words I picked out darker than the background, went over pencil markings with thin sharpie, added details to rope and hand. Idea: The sentence "his eyes watched for something else but that was not longer me" means that the "narrator" (ie, the person who is going through the journey) has been seeing signs that the person they like is no longer showing interest in them, if they had at all before. The rope is representing the narrator's connection/attraction to their person of interest, meaning that holding onto a feeling that is breaking. If you look closely, you can

  idea: "fraying"