Tuesday 17th May

This particular page is the only one that is meant to be read landscape rather than portrait, although I created the imagery so it looks as if it could be viewed portrait too. I wanted to create a simple cartoon style picture, as I knew I was then going to go on to create a cut out background. Even though I have used the knife to create some cut out images, I have not created anything as detailed as this, so it was a bit of an experiment when I did this, however it worked well so I decided it was good enough to put in my final book. I then painted the cut out flowers and leaves background gold, and added an even more metallic gold to give it the appearance of being even more special. I then cut out the words from my typewriter text and decided to place them in a less conventional way. The reader might get slightly confused when reading it, as it is to be read in clumps and sections, rather than from the left hand side all along to the right hand side. I did this as when I had done page after page I wanted to confused the reader slightly, and keep them interested, which is a bit of a contradiction from the plain drawing.

As it is traditional for the last line of fairytales to end in 'happily ever after' I wanted to keep this tradition. I decided it would be best to keep it simple, and I knew I definitely wanted to hand generate the type. I decided to print a scroll (which is also associated with old style fairytales) and then place it upon one of the backgrounds I had sponged and used throughout my book. Overall, I am pleased with the font and placing of the scroll in the centre of the page, as well as the size. However, the muted colours seem to drag the page down a little. I think when the book is complete I may introduce some hand drawn flowers into it to bring some colour to something which is meant to be the nice, happy, fairytale ending.