Chinese Food Fortune Cookie
TO DO:
You will use words, altered images, and marking-making to interpret your concept behind “the cookie” in your journal. One or two pages
Elements of a fortune cookie:
• The inside and outside of the cookie itself and its wrapper
• The fortune
• The word, in Chinese and then its English translation
• Chinese calligraphy
• Numbers
• Ethnic differences/similarities/commentary
Steps:
• concept
• composition
• creative use of media, using ALTERED images and words
• balance and depth
Options for mark making:
Sewing, ink, letter stamps, newspaper, magazine letters, and pictures,
photo transfer (using nail polish remover or acrylic medium)
paint, wax, pearl powders, glue gun, metallic pens, …..
NO pencil or colored pencil unless you are using it to alter transferred photographic images!
Begin by looking at
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BRENDA ROBSON 