Altered Silver

And just when it seems I'm never getting back, here are more spreads from "Odyssey," my ongoing altered text project. The book is now fully inked through its "Part One" section although there remain plenty of pages in "Part One" awaiting color.

 
« pages 26 & 27 »
Media on this spread include watercolor, ballpoint, colored pencils and marker, most of that over a gesso base.

Text:
One way or the other, obviously 
I wasn't listening the best way.

We had worked closely
and again,
it was time to step down up the steps.

He started construction so momentary.

We tried to believe personal responsibility
We tried to be personally responsible
no to just the crowd
but also the most eminent families.

« pages 134 & 135 »
The pages don't come any brighter or more intense than this spread. I used Inktense pencils over the gesso base, and the colors simply screamed. It was appropriate to push them into rainbow formation.

Text:
[One of them will rampage full of lava.]
I guess I did, I did.
(did or didn't)
I held out silently.
Later...
"I get your point."

a joke
grin
pleasure

Is Good God a private occupation?

still
soft
soft voice
god

« pages 36 & 37 »
Fairly typical treatment on these pages. Gesso base, a layer of watercolor, followed by colored pencils. There are also some touches of marker, a Pitt brush pen.

Text:
Good flashed forward.
I asked
and from there would be in magic and personal love.

About love my love, love is certain...
and a man who was loving has loved easy.

Thought it would be nice to post a little something. Been quite busy with other projects, but these are still coming along, bit by bit.

For this A&A project, I draw these original angel aliens (or alien angels) directly into the book with a ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. Then they are colored with wax crayon and colored pencil. 

Three more spreads from "Odyssey," my ongoing altered text project.

 
« pages 88 & 89 »
Page 88 is done all in ballpoint pen with some small touches of colored pencil for shading.
Page 89 uses marker over watercolor.

Text:
    I flashed. I knew. I turned. I saw. I felt.
    Just believe this unbelievable: God did visit.
The problem is things came secondhand to them.
I admit this with real despair, earnestly.
    I'm asking, I am asking.

Ahead, it's gonna be recklessness with the opposition - mortified - vulnerable!
The opposition having no ideas because...
     (45 percent - 41 percent - 14 percent -
     doubtless doing a fine job and all)
...they didn't know.

« pages 114 & 115 »
A white Sigmo pen was used on page 114 to X out the unneeded words without eradicating them completely. Page 115 is the usual colored pencils over watercolor. The colors might seem much too cheery for what's occuring in the story on this page, but I liked the way they looked so much I didn't want to add anything further, and the cheeriness actually does suit, in a wide, overview manner.

Text:
admit - admit
He knows right here there's a name he left me.

Is it already true? True already?
     Then it'd be too risky.
I got moral sure spring-cleaning, spring-cleaning.
I got real tragic evidence!

« pages 32 & 33 »
The basic gesso, followed by watercolor. Then gel pen over the watercolor on page 32, including an area directly onto the text with no gesso base. And that bright magenta/purple color? Bleeds right through the gesso and the paper over time. But there's no way to know that except to use it and let time pass. So when I came back later to work on the recto page 31... ! :(

Text:
Of course for the whole world, very obviously, all over accustomed to it and the same shown perfect.
Life as a prize, a success!
But there was more to life.
But there was more to it.

As always, his will.
Still, messages are glorious.

He gave old, old advice as if he owned it.
About me.
About me.

Another couple spreads from this project, which is moving along slowly, but still moving along.

For this A&A project, I draw these original angel aliens (or alien angels) directly into the book with a ballpoint. Many passes are made with the pen to define and thicken the lines. Then they are colored with wax crayon and colored pencil.

At long last, a few more spreads from "Odyssey," my long-term altered text project.

« pages 8 & 9 »
Page 8 is all ballpoint pen except for a bit of yellow pencil. Page 9 followed the usual procedure of watercolor over gesso, then colored pencil. There's also some fine-point marker for details.

Text:
I turned to the intersection,
turned the corner in odd circumstances not typical.
Silent, strange
and strange, strange, strange
as mid-March didn't know, 
didn't even know my job.

Lost, lost in a tumbling circle 
for the story, story, story, story.
I want to find out, find out
because somebody knows!

« pages 46 & 47 »
Standard procedure for this spread, with a dash of stippling.

Text:
Hey, watch it!
Crime! Homicide! Murderous!
His care was as good as a brown bottle labeled "POISON."
I...
I...
I locked buckles...

*buzz*buzz*buzz* 

...and pointed to this SKULL just so he knew that I figure some doubt in the man.
 

« pages 100 & 101»
On the left, gouache and some colored pencil, with decorations from a metallic gel pen. On the right, a little wordplay.

Text:
I asked.

I'd been to work often at the zone there.
    two and two
    to by to
I'd been around the limits of the world I knew outside.
I suppose thought will deal with this business simple.

Inside, I could see.