2008.09.23. GETTING TWIGGY WITH IT

The first photo is of my original graphic(before I added color)  I had planned on using six magazine rolls on each side to make a cubic structure.

After thinking about this more I thought the cube figure was really generic and that a triangular one may be more powerful.  Also comparing the structure to my twigs I realized how horribly out of proportion this big of a structure would be.

The second photo are different triangular shaped bases I was thinking about building on.

Also you can tell from this picture that I replaced my magazine rolls with text rolls-the black and white was much much better.  I thought it carried a stronger message and contrasted my green twigs really nicely.

You'll also notice the whole triangular shape eventually went out the window as well.

In the top left corner of this last photo you can see a triangular structure I made from the magazine rolls while I was brainstorming.  You can also see one of my twigs on the right top corner of my cutting mat.  The rolls in the bottom right corner are the text rolls I replaced the magazine rolls with.  On the left hand side of the picture there are twig shapes.  These twig shapes are actually made from putting hot glue onto magazine pages in the shapes of twigs and then after the hot glue dries pulling it up off the paper- in turn taking the background and color with the hot glue.  I discovered this method by mistake but I thought it was really cool afterwards are REALLY wanted to use this technique in my project.  I didn't end up using these hot glue twigs but I did incorporate this technique-WITHOUT it being overwhelming and unnecessary.  You'll have to look at my final twelve twigs post to see how :)