Artwork consisting of different media
SCRAP BUSTING - MIXED MEDIA FRAGMENTS I have made further inroads into my overflowing scraps box, grabbing a handful of white card strips which had been trimmed off larger sheets. Tea and rust I laid them out on the table close together and tea dyed them from a spray bottle, and once they…
SCRAP-BUSTING - CLUSTERS, AND A NEW PRINTER Another studio session in an attempt to reduce my overflowing scrap collection. I decided to make a set of clusters, simpler than my previous collection. The earlier ones are quite thick with a lot of layers and bead dangles etc. I needed to make some that…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT, AND PRINTER NEWS Some more pages for my masterboard book, this time using images from the Voynich Manuscript, but first, I was unhappy with one of my earlier pages: This was the one with the financial documents and Payne's grey water. It looked messy and dull and I…
COLLAGE PAPERS FROM OLD FINANCIAL DOCUMENTS I have a large stack of old letters from the bank, statements, council tax bills and what not. I used to shred all this stuff, but some time ago I began tea and coffee dying them with the intention of turning them into useable art papers. As…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - INKED KITCHEN PAPER Another stash-busting project! Cleaning up operations When I work with inks and paints, I don't like washing left-over media down the sink. For paints I usually wipe off the brushes onto various scratch papers which mature nicely with time and make good collage fodder or backgrounds for…
MASTERBOARD BOOK - TEXT COLLAGE PAGES Today I added five more pages to my masterboard book, which is a scrap-busting project that I started last month. It is an A4 spiral bound sketchbook which I am using to create a number of masterboard pages ready to be cut up and used in projects.…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM PART 4 Please see part 1 for details of the cover and part 2 and part 3 for the pages of the book up until now. This post completes the flip-through of this interactive album. I hope you have been enjoying it so far. Page 13 - Puzzle page This…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM PART 3 Please see part 1 for details of the cover and part 2 for the first pages of the book. Sorry to leave you on a cliff-hanger last time but I had to make a break somewhere or the posts would get far too long! Page 8 - Twist…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM PART 2 Please see part 1 for the introduction, and details of the cover and closure. Time to open the book. Page 1 - Waterfall Inside the front cover, I have created a waterfall with papers from the DCWV paper stack "The Far East." The waterfall of four flaps is…
ORIENTAL STYLE ALBUM PART 1 BREAKING NEWS - UFO crash lands in Shoshi's Studio! No alien bodies reported found Great news. One of my longstanding UFOs (UnFinished Objects) is now complete! I began this project in the spring of 2023, with one or two bursts of enthusiasm to work on it further in…
