Altered Silver

It's been a long road

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:26:37 -0600

My primary work takes me in many unexpected directions, and sometimes, back again. And so I find myself happily returning to my altered text project, and I might as well share images from it again as it comes along, because heck, that's fun too. I guess it's about time to dust the cobwebs here and see about replacing some of the images that have gone missing.

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 old,…

AltTxt2 : Digital/Physical challenge

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Fri, 07 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 thereby…

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,…

AltTxt1: "fervent hope"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Wed, 04 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.
His…

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 pencil…

F&W : Sponge-wipe background

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:15:00 -0500

Here's a quick and cool background technique.

This spread was painted with acrylic paints in yellow, red-orange and reddish brown, in that order. For each color, while the dollop of paint from the tube was wet, it was spread and wiped with a dry craft sponge. Each color was allowed to dry to the touch before the next color was applied.

(Blog note: Alive and well, but I've been engulfed in…