Amy's Notes from the meeting

Josie - sewing onto paper - working really well.
*if people are interested, check out the birds/ animals at the Exeter museum? really good for this project*
Need to: work more on experimentation and drawing birds from different angles. Also need to look at the stories behind them.

Katie - picked 4 birds.
looking at the crests - how the birds became extinct is going to be placed within the crest's design.
been developing the crests and looking at the shapes made.
Josie said about maybe looking at the animation she posted on Plymouth Illustration (the owl in the hedgehog animation) might help?
Need to: carry on working in the print room as much as possible. start the etching.

Jo - looking at the colours she could include in her book about the bitterns.
going through different colour charts that are colourful but not too over the top.
character designing.
Need to: decide on colours and also start designing an adult bittern character.

Andjela - shows a book she has about Extinct birds which helps a lot. has a lot more back info about the different birds.
looked at artists who use collage in their work and so started experimenting with collage and different textures. (corrogarted cardboard - preperation for woodcut)
Need to: post a blog and carry on with the experimentation (woodcut, lino etc workshop sessions coming up)

Ody - been thumbnailing for comic which may be applied to an app.
been looking at colourful birds 
going to produce a continuous strip .
when the music plays the pics change.
Need to: carry on with thumbnails and maybe even start draft final ideas.

Emmy - going to produce 3 mini-zines.
going to link them together somehow - maybe reason for extinction or species or colour?
maybe look at secret garden technique if struggling to work out how to create the zines.
Need to: plan at least one mini-zine.

Nadine - been working in the printroom - some really nice monoprints.
experimenting a lot,
looked at Audubon? book of birds - really like it.
drawn some quick sketches from the Exeter Museum.
looking into conservation posters and may have live birds as well as extinct birds.
maybe use colour as a metaphor...no colour means extinct.
going to produce screen prints,
Need to: carry on researching and drawing.

Amy - fun, interaction.
need to have suitable text for the audience and because its an educational book.
look at how your style can come across in the pop up.
figure out what angle the book is from so either the birds view or have a narrative?
Need to: start making the pop ups, talk to tom about whether or not you can drop the Macmillan idea and experiment more.