A New Project
My art buddies brought their sketchbooks to the Met when we went to see the Picasso exhibit and I told them how much I loved their mixed media pages. Melly said - try it, put more than one thing on a page. Pat said add layers, many layers. I had an 8 X 10" journal that I made from Teesha Moore's 16 Page Journal You Tube video several weeks ago so I decided to use it and to accept their challenges. However, I wanted to make collages from my own sketchbook pages and add at least one new drawing to each page.
I pulled out all of my random art supplies and played for one week - just letting the pages evolve from printed sketchbook pages. Here is the front cover, and the first 2 pages. The collage painting on the cover was from the Poiret Fashion Exhibit at the Met and she reminded me of a muse. The Picasso page has several of his Barcelona artist caricatures collaged in one of the layers and a Picasso inspired drawing on top. My Maternite page has several of my pregnant model stamp images which I cut out and added as collages and the drawing of mother and child on top. Both drawings were done with acrylic ink and a dip pen.
The next page is a double spread and will need to be photographed, not scanned, so I will probably add it within the next few days.
Comments
Oh Shirley, what fun! I. must. play. more.
You enjoy girl!
Posted by: susan | June 6, 2010 8:38 PM
Love the experimentation! I have to try this sometime myself. You have many interesting effects by doing this layering, although I have only the vaguest idea of how one would do this. I really like the line drawing of mother and child.
Posted by: Dan Kent | June 6, 2010 9:04 PM
Beautiful posts Shirley =)
Posted by: Alex Tan | June 6, 2010 10:51 PM
Beautiful work and lovely drawings ! I bet this experiment brought you a lot of fun and interesting surprises !
Posted by: Martine Pittet | June 7, 2010 2:28 AM
Yeah! you have some neat friends who push you. Yeah! you have met the challenge. Someone in EDM, used stamp pads for a background and I am beginning to cautiously use that as a first layer. Nice work!
Posted by: Sandra Torguson | June 7, 2010 5:55 AM
Wonderful pages, I really like your layering and collage, writing inclusions. Love the maternity page.
Posted by: Benedicte | June 7, 2010 8:51 AM
Nice start! Can't wait to see how far you'll go with this!
Posted by: Revelle Taillon | June 7, 2010 12:31 PM
It looks like you had a great time doing these! They're wonderful!
Posted by: Raena | June 7, 2010 1:12 PM
Layering always yields interesting results but isn't it time-consuming! I very much like the way you tell about your influences.
Posted by: Wendy | June 7, 2010 7:12 PM
Loving your new layering style!
Posted by: debra | June 8, 2010 7:14 AM
What lovely pages - I especially like the way your have pasted the image on the front in several parts.
Posted by: Margaret | June 9, 2010 5:42 AM
I love the way you use type in your art and the Maternite piece is such a lovely drawing.
Posted by: Mary | June 9, 2010 1:47 PM