Writing inspired canvas

I created this canvas (excuse the terrible picture) because I wanted to relate it to writing and use words but not a quote, I wanted to do something different this time but inspiring too and what's more inspiring than nature? So I made a silhouette of a bird in flight out of newspaper and then rolled up newspaper sheets for the stem of the flower and created the flower out of circles of newspaper and screwed up inside the flower is a brightly coloured piece of paper-even though it isn't visible to an outsider, I like the idea of the contrast, it appears to be black and white but inside is a little ball of colour-hope.

Making My Own Scrapbook

I go to an art group at BYHP and last term we created our own scrapbooks. I used an old Cardboard box and painted it blue inside and green on the outside. I chose to have a sweet shop theme and so made lots of little paper jars to create a window sweet shop effect on the outside, using brown card as the window frame and plastic sheets to create the glass effect. On the inside I then used sponges and foam in the shape of foam fruit shapes, like the traditional foam banana. I then chose a mixture of card and marble paper I had made on a previous week and stitched this into the spine of my book and this was the finished product:

Front

Back

Inside