Day: January 5, 2007

Art, Artist Books, Collage, Ladybusiness

It Was Always Adam’s Apple & Eve Reworked

Shelly

Hemp Bound Journal: Eve Was Born of a Peculiar Rib (reworked)
Eve Was Born of a Peculiar Rib (reworked)
collage (dress pattern, fragments from old books, T pins, oil pastel, gears, brass brads, sand paper, and poplar tree leaf)
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches

Hemp Bound Journal: It Was *Always* Adam's Apple
It Was Always Adam’s Apple
collage (book and magazine clippings)
8 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches

I felt like the poplar leaf in Eve was popping out too much, and that it either needed to be toned down or to be balanced in the opposite corner. So I played around with adding gesso, then oil pastel, which helped. Since this is a creation myth, I though some sand paper would be appropriate. And then I remembered the little gears I recently got from Ms. Lea, and applied them with some tarnished brass brads.

The lower image uses a graphic from a biology book, the back page from an Anthropologie catalog, and a magazine clipping. Like most of the glue book type collages I\’ve done, it was a stream of consciousness exercise. This one turned out pretty well, I think.

Crankypantsing

Grammar Rant o’ the Day

Shelly

On a few of my favorite blogs, I have noticed the same form of hyphen abuse. It is normally accepted practice to place a hyphen between two words to create a compound word. This is especially common when the two words precede a noun which they describe. For example, “a well-timed kick upside the head.” What is not acceptable is to hyphenate an adverb-adjective combo if the adverb ends in -ly. If you want to write about your “recently elected congresswoman” or your “freshly brewed coffee,” then please to be omitting the extraneous hyphen!

Thank you. Class dismissed.

(And, of course, every grammar rant is required to include numerous grammar mistakes. C’est la blogging.)

Postcard
Postcard: Cannes, Un Coin de la Croisette (from my ephemera stash)