Thursday, July 25, 2013

feeling punky and lame


I am happy with this 2 page spread.

On this page, I glued a page from the Playbill for Blue Man Group to cover much of the page. The middle has two scraps left from a page from a book, with some paint dribbles. Then I wrote how I was feeling tired and icky, just needing some art-time, in a wonky, rectangular spiral.

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 This side has some strips of Washi tape covered by the word silk, from the postcard from New England Quilt Museum's exhibit. Then I wove some scraps from the printing I did for journal covers and end papers. One paper is a rice paper, and I found the ink pen left little dots at the beginning and end of each letter where I wrote "kind of crabby" (it's upside down).

 

Monday, July 22, 2013

starting journals Open Studio in July

My photos on cardstock for covers...
and on rice paper for end papers. I will stitch in 8 pages which gives me 32 surfaces. I use these as traveling journals and they fit in the back of my regular Art Journals.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

AC running in studio, and I have company
left to right.....Buck Wheat is 5 and 1/2 , Deezel is 200 lbs and 4 and 1/2.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Here are some starting pages in ART JOURNAL 2013 Vol. II
The pocket on the left is a parchment envelope from an advertisement with sharpie. I doodled and splattered watercolors for the table of contents page. Lettering is with Micron Pigma

The squares on the left are from a New England Quilt Museum postcard. It struck me that they look like kites, and pay tribute to the many cultural groups of Lowell.
marks a day spent at Quilt Museum in Lowell



water color splotches and doodles around a repurposed library card

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

two more pictures of daylilies

I got the shot I wanted for watercolors...
 
and picked some for closer study...
 
should inspire a poem !
 
 
yellow throat, five curled
petals, summer blossoms' hue
previews autumn's glow
 

Monday, July 8, 2013

I can admire this from my studio window -  in the AC comfort...


I will focus on the daylilies in front of the ledge...
the photo has such a sharp contrast in color doesn't print out well, but am taking shot today, a more cloudy day.

Thursday, July 4, 2013

New Journal

Sometimes, starting a new journal actually means improving the cover of an old one. I didn't like the cover of ART JOURNAL 2013 Vol. I, so I collaged over it with a postcard from the Institute of Art
 I added the bottles image, text and numbers cut from the postcard.
 
 
Volume II began with some watercolor splashes and washes
  This page began with some scribbles using Sharpies brushes and has two plastic lidded boxes to hold trinkets.
I blew watercolor drops through a straw over the washes.