The unfolding tale of Silver and his adventures in the altered arts including altered books, altered text and mixed media stuff. http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/gluebook_08_05/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:57:53 -0600 All Rights Reserved http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/31/daily-collage-doorway.html http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/31/daily-collage-doorway.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) Gluebook_08/05 Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:10:00 -0500 <a href="http://img333.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gb0831051qb.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/6268/gb0831051qb.th.jpg" width="115" height="167" align=left alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>The prompt of "doors or windows" was timely for me as I'd just come across this pillared doorway which fit the page perfectly.<br /><br /><br /><br /><small>Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/altered+books" rel="tag">altered books</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/art+journals" rel="tag">art journals</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/collage" rel="tag">collage</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/mixed+media" rel="tag">mixed media</a>, <a href=http://technorati.com/tag/gluebooks rel="tag">gluebooks</small> http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/30/daily-collage-numbers.html http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/30/daily-collage-numbers.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) Gluebook_08/05 Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:00:00 -0500 </small>&#8230; http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/29/daily-collage-blue.html http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/29/daily-collage-blue.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) Gluebook_08/05 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:55:00 -0500 <a href="http://img333.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gb0829055zi.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/1306/gb0829055zi.th.jpg" width="115" height="167" align=left alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>This is a very loose page, with emply space filled in with colored pencil. After this one, I decided I didn't want to fill the entire page from edge-to-edge, so future pages covered only the text portion of each page.<br /><br />I began dating each page by using a clipped date (you can see it in the lower-left corner of this one). Every day, I have several printed dates from the current&#8230; http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/28/daily-collage.html http://alteredsilver.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/08/28/daily-collage.html noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) Gluebook_08/05 Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:40:00 -0500 <a href="http://img333.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gb0828055cj.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img333.imageshack.us/img333/5830/gb0828055cj.th.jpg" width="115" height="167" align=left alt="Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us" /></a>I first made this loose collage in a composition book, thinking I'd be using the composition book as my gluebook support. I glued down my selected papers (including the price sheet for the composition book which came in a pack of 3), then layered watercolor around it, then hated it. Composition book papers simply don't have enough strength to hold up to collage. <br /><br />Very carefully, I lifted each piece and transferred&#8230;