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I have blog fever and the only cure is more cowbell.

I have spent the last couple of days reading my students' blogs and have become really inspired to get in on the posting myself.  So... here goes!

This weekend I finished the final touches on my teaching exemplars for a project my art basics students are doing. The class (which centers around the big idea of identity) has been playing with expressive mark making, doing analog drawings, and learning how to work artfully in photoshop. The culminating project (guidelines which can be viewed here) is for them to produce an accordion fold artists book which ties in with the big theme of identity as well as a mini-theme - suggestions include internal vs. external, public vs. private, society vs. personal, etc.  I thought this fit perfectly with the idea of a book as a book has multiple dimensions (the cover equaling external and the pages equaling internal).

Here are some photos of my process and the (nearly completed :) exemplar

some of my process sketches - seems like i never actually sketch in my "sketch" book

the dual-sided 4 panel option - side one

the dual sided 4 panel option - side two

the eight panel option - single sided

and again.. with flash this time (thought the reflection on my desktop was cool)

and another detail shot