Altered Silver - art_process

CofA: Additional Assembly

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:05:00 -0500

The CofA "assembly line" continued with the addition of some tiny collage pieces to several of the book's pages. Not every page received one, and this representative spread didn't receive any at all, so there's nothing to see for this step at this time.

The next run-through found me doodling a little something on each spread. Using my after-dinner-watch-a-little-tv time, a page or two of doodling was completed each passing day,…

CofA : Further Assembly

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:00:00 -0600

The next step in the CofA assembly line involved using the broad side of a marker to make about a .25 inch borderline around the outside edges of each of the pages. This side-view picture is rather blurry, but you can get an idea of how much more color these borders contributed to the general appearance of the book.

I have more rubber stamp alphabets than any other type of item…

F&W : Finish Line

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:34:25 -0600

Just when I decided to join in with Artwords group which offers a topic each week to illustrate or creatively build upon, they came up with this one: Graffiti. Hm, well, I don't do graffiti in the dictionary sense of "drawing or writing on public property," and I don't even live in an area with an active graffiti base of that nature. So I thought I'd have to pass on this…

AltTxt2 : "Love repeats"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:46:00 -0600

While "Odyssey" is still underway, I've made a start on a second altered text project which I'll be working on in conjunction with the AlteredText Yahoogroup. Each month, we'll be focusing on altering four pages from Catching The Light by Susan Pope. I don't know if I'll be able to work on all four pages each month, but we'll see how it goes.

Having some time away from the studio and…

More Layer-Painted Papers

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:05:00 -0600

I knew I would need more than the four layer-painted papers I'd already made so I caught another afternoon to make an additional quartet. And this time, I took a moment to snap a photo each time I paused to allow paint to dry. The photos don't have the best focus, but they should be clear enough to see how cool the changes are as the papers morph along through the…

CofA : Assembly-line artistry

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:50:00 -0600

The Celebration of Angels project was moving right along. There were color and pockets, windows and shapes, faux die-cut inserts, cards and tags with envelopes prepared. It was time to turn the project into a kind of "assembly line" of various steps. Because each step is applied to the entire book, I selected one spread to photograph as representative for the changes occuring throughout the book. What happens in this spread,…

Project : Angels Among Us - early spreads

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:53:27 -0600

This altered book project, Angels Among Us (named after the title of the book), is really just an excuse for me to play with colors. It's a small (5x8", 127 pages) hardcover with many Gustave Doré woodcuts and various clip art angels used as spot illustrations. This book found its way to me by being a remainder under $2 that I selected sight unseen, solely on the basis of its title…

F&W : Watercolor Crayon

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:10:00 -0600

When I got my first set of watercolor crayons (Lyra Aquacolor), I decorated quite a few spreads in the F&Ws as I experimented with the possibilities of the medium.

This one shows how delicate the colors can be. Just scribble on a bit of crayon, then brush out the pigment with water. I repeated the steps in various places to build up the color a little stronger.

For this spread, I…

Giftwrap is paper, too!

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:37:31 -0600

I generally glance over the influx of wrapping paper in the stores at this time of year, looking for inexpensive rolls of nonspecific designs/colors that can be useful as paper for other purposes, such as in altered books and collage. Usually I'm attracted to solid color foils, sometimes with nonrepresentational embossing. Holographic paper is cool, too. For wrapping gifts, however, all it takes is some sheets of newspaper and a little…

ATC : A Cup of Altered Text

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:30:00 -0600

Here's a little fun activity I've been intending to do for a long time: altered text ATCs. Thanks to a recent discussion on the AlteredText Yahoogroup, I found the inspiration to give it a go.

The process begins with pages torn from an old paperback book, then large areas of text are snipped out approximately ATC-size, and affixed to cardstock with acrylic medium. The text is selected, then decorated. The cards…