May's Animation
For my birthday in April, I received a handful of beautiful bouquets. I love flowers, and I didn't want to see these go to waste, so I pressed them, on purpose of course. I wanted to animate pressed flowers for May because Spring is finally here!! After very little research (a youtube video or two) I learned that you have to press flowers in their "prime". I enjoyed them for a couple days and then laid the prettiest ones to rest on newspaper between two heavy books. Then you
April's Animation
For April, things needed to be portable, as I spent most of it exploring parts of France, Italy and the Netherlands. I knew that when I set up this challenge for myself, this month would be particularly difficult. I brainstormed a series of ideas, but most of them seemed impossible or unrealistic. It began with a sketchbook. I envisioned a series of drawings to make a 'flip-book' animation. I ended up with 2 sketchbooks that had the perfect paper, but they weighed me down (li
