On Monday, you saw the start of the mermaid book that I made during the class on Saturday. You saw one page in the book.
Yesterday, I made more pages. Specifically, I worked on shaped pages! They aren’t finished, but I thought you might like to see what I have so far.
The first one is a nautilus shell. I like the shape because it reminds me of Leonardo Pisano Bigollo (c. 1170 – c. 1250) – aka Leonardo of Pisa or sometimes just Fibonacci. Fibonacci laid the groundwork for our modern-day mathematical understanding of certain shapes in nature, including Nautilus shells. As you can see, this flip-shape has the same picture on both sides of the shape.
The second flip-shape is a fish head. I’m not sure what fish it is, but I liked the idea of it. I will be coloring this one with my Inktense pencils. I may make it aqua-ish on one side and coral on the other to go with the color palette of the book.
The third flip shape is an octopus that is acting as an edge design. In this case, I didn’t put the same design on the other side. I want to do something different on this side.
I made a couple of rectangular pages, also, but they’re not particularly interesting at this stage.
These pages will most likely, not end up in the order you see here. I plan to finish all the base pages tomorrow, and then arrange them all in the order I think they should go. Keep in mind, however, an artist might change their mind at any time!