Designing Our Photoframes - 3D Woodwork Workshop Day 2

For my second day in the 3D Workshop we were asked to design a photo frame that we would eventually make. We were told that it had to link in with our current project, which was 'Me, Myself and I'
I chose to design 3 different idea's all based on things that i like.
I chose my first design to be based around music, which has a large influence in my life. I decided that i wanted this design to look like vintage photo's, black and white, slightly brown from aging and fading at the sides. To start off this design, i printed off sheets of sheet music onto tracing paper (so it didn't have such hard lines, it had a softer look) and also keys of a piano to use as a reference. I then chose to cut the sheet music into the shape of the frame and then ripped the sides before gluing it down, this way it would look as if the image was fading from the frame due to old age. I did this to both sides of the frame. I then looked at my piano keys as a reference and drew them onto the remaining space of the frames. I painted over the piano keys in a brown to match the brown of the sheet music so that it all blended together, then painting over the keys in black acrylic.

My design for the Music Inspired Frame.

For my next design, i chose to base it on Funfairs as they are places that i love to visit. I wanted this design to show off all of the aspects of fun fairs that i love such as roller coasters and bright lights against the dark night sky. I started this design by drawing a roller coaster at the bottom of the frame. I then drew a Helter Skelter at the right side of the frame, a ride that i used to love as a child. I coloured these in bright colours to represent the bright lights against the dark sky. I used colours such as yellow, red and blue which stand out. For the background, i used a dark blue to make the rest of the colours stand out.

My design based on Funfaires

For my final design, i based it on my favorite book, The Fault in our Stars. I chose to make this design look as if it was home-made and like someone had stuck little items onto it. To start this design, i picked my favorite quotes from the book. I then wrote them onto the frame, one at the top, one at the bottom and also one at the right side. Because i wanted the frame to look as if things had been stuck on, i drew specific items onto it from the book such as a roller coaster, champagne glasses, speech  bubbles and also an infinity sign. For the colour scheme i chose to use the colours that were used on the cover of the book. I used a pale blue for the background so it didn't take away any attention from the quotes and objects. I then used dark blues, golds and blacks for the objects and quotes so that they stood out.

My design based on The Fault in our Stars

I really enjoyed this workshop as i got to take control of how my work would turn out, and had lots of possibilities of the designs i could have made.