A Super-Fun Project…

Here’s another little project that’s been going on around here lately. K’s nephew is having a birthday this week. His current passion is superheroes. And K. and I were browsing the toy aisles, trying to find a B-day gift that wasn’t . . . well . . . lame.

Then, we had a brainstorm: Why not make him a storybook, where he’s a superhero?

I love collaborating with K, because he’s so creative. He wrote the (totally cute) story, and I illustrated. We don’t have software for digital collage at the moment, so I did this stuff old-school, with photos, magazine pages, and my rusty drawing skills.

One very cool thing, though, was having access to Second Life, because you can build objects and find landscapes in there, and take images.

I could just say, “Honey, I need an ocean-scape, with a small teddy bear in a life-preserver who looks like he’s being pulled by a rope.” And K would come back in a few minutes with exactly the thing I needed. (Imagine the hours of looking through old magazines to pull that off!)

Anyway, now we just need to laminate and bind the pages. I hope our birthday boy enjoys this as much as we’ve enjoyed making it.