Just a quick mention, that I am going to start posting an ATC a day as a way to play with lots of techniques. This was an idea put forward by my friend,
Lisa and I have decided to join her in her venture. we shall see! She also has a great list of techniques which she wants to try.
My art books, as I have said, are recycled/altered books which I use to create little bits of art and experiment in on different themes.
Here are a few pages I have worked on recently.
This is a page from my bird theme book. The backgrpound is newspaper painted with gesso and then a watercolour wash, which I find easy to paint and draw on and is a cheap and easy way to cover up the page contents underneath. The bird was inspired by a card. It is a little hard to see because it is drawn with a metallic pen, but basically each piece of the bird is doodled with a different free motion quilting design. I have a small quilt based on this page in process, so you see the books are a great design resource..
This is a page in process in my water/oceans book. Again the background is painted newspaper/gesso.
The seahorses are molding paste applied through a stencil, then painted gold.
This page will be layered again to add some more weeds and depth before it is finished. I already have ideas about using painted fusible in a small quilt like this.
These ferns in my leaf theme book are stencilled with oil pastel. Next, I will put a watercolour wash on which will be resisted by the pastel. This can be mimicked on fabric using shiva sticks and fabric paint, so i do see a batch of fabric comming up.
I have shown this page before. It is a ripped printout pasted to the page, but here, you can see I have begun to sketch out the missing parts. I think this page needs a wash for the background, so the leaves will brobably be completed with oil pastel.
Another page from the leaf book, this is a simple layout for a small motif (about 4") I made using couched copper wire on a piece of woven wool fabric. This page has a piece od non woven paper/fabric (the type florists use on their posies) pasted directly to the page. It is semi transparent, but I actually like the little views you can see. The pink/orange paper is
paste paper .
I have actually been doing a lot of sewing an textile work, but haven't quite got to the point of something to show yet and a couple of my WIPs are things I can't show until a certain date, but two days untill I start posting ATCs!!!!
