Relief Project: Madeline

For this project, we were assigned to think of something that we liked or something that means something to us, then create that thing using materials that related to it. I decided to do my little sister, Madeline, using paper from a children's book. I started by finding a picture of her face in my camera roll, then I made it completely black and white. I printed it out and decided to use the text from Berenstain Bears books to replace the white space in the photo. I got a large piece of black styrofoam and glued a piece of black paper on top of it for my background. Then, I started cutting out pieces of the text from the books and gluing them onto the paper. When I finished this step, I realized that it didn't look very 3D, and that I could make it less flat. I decided to cut out some of the illustrations and glue them onto the paper upright so they stuck out. I placed these illustrations in the negative space so that it looked more interesting. Now that I am done my project, I wish I had added something to the negative space to fill up the portrait. I could've added more text or cut out different words and illustrations. Overall, the portrait is very accurate and looks very similar to the original photo. I wish I could've picked a photo that had more detail and was more clear, but I like how this project turned out.