Category: Collage

Art, Artist Books, Collage

The Remembrancer: Blue Moon

Shelly

The Remembrancer: Blue Moon
The Remembrancer: Blue Moon
Portfolio water-soluble crayons, pencil, and gesso
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches

For some reason, I have a terrible time color-correcting blues. It doesn’t help that some media–like crayons and colored pencils–lose opacity when scanned. So, the color on this one is as close as I could get it, but it’s not perfect.

I’m also not a big fan of Portfolio water-soluble crayons. They’re super creamy and smeary and are just too mushy for my tastes. They also don’t layer very well, so just when you think you are building up nice, complex strata of pigment, you end up with bald spots. Hrmf!

Art, Artist Books, Collage

Distress Signals & The Soothsayer’s Palm

Shelly

The Remembrancer: Distress Signals
The Remembrancer: Distress Signals
collage (illustrations from old book, child’s dress pattern, and buttons) with gesso and Portfolio water-soluble crayons
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches

The Remembrancer: The Soothsayer's Palm
The Remembrancer: The Soothsayer’s Palm
collage (film strip, old shipping label, dictionary fragment, dried flower and brass brad) with gesso, ink, and Portfolio water-soluble crayons
4 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches

Altered Books, Art, Collage

The Terrible Hours: Title Page & Table of Contents

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: Title Page
The Terrible Hours: Title Page
collage (altered Polaroid, anatomical illustration, and yearbook photos)
9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches

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collage (anatomical illustration, map, child’s dress pattern, and fragment from old book) with Neocolors II and pencil
9 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches

I’m not going to do anything to the cover. I sort of like the idea of altered books sitting on the shelf, looking “normal” on the outside.

Now, what next? I’m going to have to find a new project.

Altered Books, Art, Collage

The Terrible Hours: FINISHED!

Shelly

The Terrible Hours: The Man in the Moon
The Terrible Hours: The Man in the Moon
collage (text book illustrations, pennies, and maps)
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

That’s Mercury, actually, but it’s close enough to moon-like to work, I think.

The Terrible Hours: Epilogue
The Terrible Hours: Epilogue
collage (text book illustrations, map, library catalog card, buttons, and sand paper) with ink\
9 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

These are the final two spreads from the book. I still have to do the table of contents, but other than that, it’s finished. There are sixteen two-page spreads plus one single page. It took took exactly 20 days, which is pretty darned quick for me.