Literacy Poster

I've got to be honest, I think this one was the most fun to do. I wanted to do one with a more "warm" color scheme than the previous ones. I have a really bad habbit when I start coloring things to get very blue, and I've found that the blues are sometimes the hardest to print. I was having a hard time finding out what I wanted to do with this one, after all how to you show "Inferring"? So like most of these ideas you just keep the question of "Inferring" in your head and whenever you have a spare moment you think about it. As I found with this poster, sometimes your muse comes in the strangest places. In this case it came from GI Joe. I was discussing GI Joe's with my friend Patrick and how when he was a kid he would play with his GI Joes by making a giant maze from books and the Joe's would have to find their way out. Fast forward me driving in my car and that thought comes in my head... Strategic readers use what they know, along with text clues to make inferences about the text.... or navigate the text.... you navigate through a maze. Instantly I thought of Indiana Jones and how in the "Last Crusade" when he's using things he knows about the bible to navigate through the trials at the end. When watching a movie the artist in me always loves those big establishing shots of places and I thought of the scene in "Last Crusade" when they are standing on the cliff looking at the Canyon of the Crescent Moon. Hence the cliff, and the maze, with the temple in the center.

I found besides the idea, the hardest thing about this was making the labyrinth itself. There is no reference out there for something like this and I found myself really having to wing it, using what little reference I could find.... a lot of the "Prince of Egypt." Anyway, I hope you like it, I really enjoyed making this one.