12/17/2005
F&W : "Trust"
I began this spread by looking through my rip file, a collection of images gleaned from magazines and books. Most of the stuff in my rip file was gathered about fifteen years ago. I keep promising myself I'll add the newer finds to it, but I just haven't gotten around to doing that yet. So when I went looking in the rip file a couple months ago, everything I found there was new and fresh to my eyes, not having looked at that stuff in some long while.
I selected a pretty image of a sunset to use as an F&W background. It wasn't quite large enough to fill an entire spread, so I decided to extend it with a bit of paint.
I laid the picture on the F&W spread, then used watercolor pencils to fill in the empty portion, trying to match the colors as closely as I could. Then I added some water with a small brush, to fill out the color areas.
A bold black border was made around the edges of the spread with a marker, then the image was adhered into place using matte medium. The magazine paper didn't like getting wet at all, so I ended up with a couple wrinkles in the image. C'est la vie.
The final steps were to add a rubber-stamped statement ("you couldn't be in better hands") and some wonderfully large letter stickers.
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Bel argent mystérieux,
I am impressed by your fecundity and pedagogy. But, I am not sure about understanding your last presentation.
About the illustration on the right page and on a large part of the left: is it a «ready made» or «ready-found» picture?
Merci à vous, though I am beginning to be addicted to you
PS: Have you ever done something on Katrina or 9-11?
Posted by: dalens | 12/18/2005
Salut Edalens! (dalens?) Je suis ravi que ça t'ait plu. T'es trop gentil, merci. :) :)
The sunset is a printed image, extracted from a magazine many years ago. For this spread, I merely painted the paper on the left to coordinate with that «found» image.
My "rip file" is a collection of found imagery from magazines and books. The items in the file are categorized by subject matter and color. But it is difficult to maintain! Someday, I will resume adding more items to the file. ;)
My gluebook page for September 23 related to Katrina :
http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/09/23/daily-collage-paper-weaving.html
That is all I have made on those subjects. I seek more often to express art from within rather than from without. J'espère que la phrase est compréhensible. :)
Posted by: Silver | 12/18/2005
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