Altered Silver

In early summer, I managed to get four new pages completed in my secondary altered text project, and those four became eight. This project is being worked on with the AlteredText Yahoogroup, and is based on Catching the Light by Susan Pope. As with the first page completed in this project, I tackled these four pages with digital media first, then reproduced the digital versions with natural media. The process thereby provides a double-challenge. It's fun to try to stay faithful to the spirit of the digital original while juggling the necessary limitations of physical media.

These images show both versions displayed together. In each image, the digital page is on the left, and the physical page is on the right.

Page 160: "Look at the patterns." 
Physical media: marker, wax crayon, colored pencil

Page 161: "In a spot of fun, of mischief, I have drawn the drawing of the single braid." 
Physical media: acrylic medium, ballpoint, marker, gesso, watercolors

Page 184: "a five-letter word, a five-letter word" (with many 5-letter words highlighted)
Physical media: acrylic medium, watercolor, Pitt pens, colored pencils

Page 185: "Overall doodles in ink - blue, black, purple."
Physical media: ballpoint pens

This book is shaping up to be a little experimental, a little serious, a little silly and a lot of fun. Unlike my primary altered text project, this one has no ongoing story. Each page stands on its own which means almost anything can happen.
I like that. ;)