Week Seven--Second Semester

Well, I finally purchased my road paper and glued it down and I am not switching!!! Actually, though, I'm happy with it and hope others will be too. Though this image below can't totally do it justice, the paper is a kind of lavender with gold and white flecks, making it look kind of concrete-y.
Here is my actual piece with the roads. I also attached the two pieces of foam core together and THAT was an ordeal. It should stay, though. As I proceed and begin gluing down large areas of paper (specifically grass) I think I'm going to have to glue something of equal size (maybe newspaper) on the reverse side to prevent serious warping, which is one thing I'm concerned about.


My sister, who is studying in Germany right now, surprised me with a package in the mail containing tons of papers for me to use in my collage. With my dwindling stash these will really help out! (Sorry for the bad photo--all of my photos, actually, are kind of bad. I think I need a better camera : /
I worked on the bridge for the subway cars, gluing together two pieces of foam core and lining the edges with the same paper as the bridge. Here is a close-up:

And lastly, as I promised from last week, here are images of the *new* sowohl als auch cafe with cutaways to reveal the cake lady pouring tea/coffee. Again, I apologize for the less than wonderful photos.



Utilization of Time:
Honestly, I don't know. LOTS of time--cutting out, arranging and gluing my roads, gluing my pieces of foam core together, removing the old road I had (which took forever) and creating my bridge. Probably 30 hours or so???

Here is my roommate with her teeth: