2D Flip Art

On the 16th and 17th of September in our art class, we were given a task of making 2D flip art with books which otherwise would be going in the bin.  We had to base our flip art on what the book was about, by reading the synopsis or a few paragraphs from the book. We based our work on artists such as Sachio Yoshida and Ross Rixon, other artists who often use books in their artwork.

These are some pieces of what we based our work on:

     I don't know who the artist is, but it's a very good finished piece.  The background is very simple, but that doesn't matter because it works well with another simple, but mysterious, women walking in the forest.  The women looks as if she is doing something, and as the viewer you want to know more and that is what makes it so appealing.

     I think that this book was a romantic novel.  There are a man and a women, who are holding there hands out towards each other, because they love each other.  They are also on opposite sides of the page to one another, which suggests to me that they are being kept apart.

Our task:

First of all we got a book.  The one I used was called "The Penguin's Guide To The Law".  I thought this was a very boring book, and found it hard to think of ideas I could base my flip art on.  Then once we had our books, we found the middle of it and stuck 4 or 5 pages together on either side, to make the page we would make our flip art on stronger, and left it to dry.  We then read some of the book or the synopsis and decided to think about what we could make for our pop art (it had to be to do with the book).  We made notes on the blank pages at the front and back of the book:
These are some of the notes I made.

After some thinking, I decided that I would make a court scene; there would be a penguin as the judge at the back of the scene, and at the front the would be a silhouetted jury.

After that we started to draw our designs onto our books, then cut them out with a craft knife.  It was important that we made sure we had a cutting mat underneath the page we were cutting on; so the other pages below the one we were cutting on wouldn't get damaged.

Once they were cut out, scored along the fold, and bent into place, they were finished.

Unfortunately I only had the time to do one pop up on my book, but overall, from what I did it was successful.  The pop up was stiff and didn't fall back down, and it was quite clear, because I was going to make a full court scene if I had had the time.  I could have spent more time on how I could distinguish the fact that it was a penguin, perhaps thinking more about what makes a penguin a penguin- exaggerating key features like its beak.  Maybe creating another penguin next to it, because it would be easier to make it look like a penguin if it wasn't behind the stand.