Altered Silver

AltTxt1 : "working working"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:30:00 -0500

Here are a couple more spreads from my ongoing altered text project, Odyssey. The project continues to move right along; I have about 70 pages completed at this point.

« pages 164 & 165 »
The media for p. 164 is watercolor and colored pencil; for p. 165 they are gouache and Sharpie. Each page also had a gesso base layer.

The design of p. 165 was inspired by an…

AltTxt2 : Digital/Physical challenge

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500

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…

CofA: Additional Assembly

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 5 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…

AltTxt1: "fervent hope"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:43:52 -0500

Here are a couple yellow/orange/brown spreads of altered text from my long-term Odyssey project.

« pages 128 & 129 »
The media for these pages include watercolor, gel pens and Pitt markers, on the customary base of gesso.

Text:
fervent hope
I would hope
would hope
I would hope

I agreed to see him.
To my surprise, I discovered two.
They glowed.
They wait.

He would be giving his part.…

AltTxt: "he knows no problem"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:15:00 -0500

Squeezing in a slice of time to post another spread from my ongoing altered text project Odyssey.

« Pages 140 & 141 »
Page 140 illustrates an intense colloquy, and the page design is intended to depict the contrasting emotions of the speakers. I love it when I find such useful paragraphs as this one containing four instances of the word "notice;" great providence! This page is gouache and colored…