Materials: drawing pen, pencil
fabric scraps
water color paper/construction paper
rubber cement
scissors/X-acto
long, rectangular drawing paper strips (suggested 6”x18”)
Cardboard ‘bookends’ (suggested 4.5”x5”)
Book Content
Choose a room in your house. Pick an everyday appliance/object. How does that object differ depending on the owner, the location, time period, function, size and/or style?
Research. Go to friends and families homes and observe the location, time period, function, size, style of their matching object. Take photographs for reference.
Consider where to place the drawings on the paper. Linear and academic design? Composed to set up a narration or setting?
Make multiple simple ink drawings of your researched object. Suggested 2 or 3 per panel. Repetition of the objects enhance elements of design. Create contrast based on where the object is coming from. Variety and interest are attained by making variations of the same object.
Book Covers
Choosing from your own collection or the classroom bin, cut fabric to the size of the bookends. The fabric should reflect the room where the object can be found. Use for interior of covers. Fabric can also be used for the exterior. If used, then make a smaller paper book title page that can be glued on top, the fabric bordering it. Whether or not fabric is used, alter paper so that the use/purpose of the object is emphasized.
Secret Pocket
Adhere somewhere to the book, the ‘secret pocket’. Insert in it something associated with your object. You may embellish it how you like. Text, images, collage.
About the Author
On the back book cover, make an ‘About the Author’ blurb. Show off! Talk about yourself!
Consider the entire book
Can you identify what the book is about based from the cover(Not a necessity, by the way!)? Can you draw a story from each illustrated appliance? Is there a balance to the design? Is it “readable”?
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