Altered Silver - project_alteredtext1

AltTxt1 : "First dare ask questions"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:37:00 -0600

I'm posting what I can tonight because it'll be a week or two before the next post. So here are more pages from Odyssey, my ongoing altered text project.

« pages 124 & 125 »
These pages followed the usual process. Gesso base, lightly sanded, watercolors, then colored pencils. Page 125 also received a bit of dotting with a Pitt brush pen to add texture.

Text:
It was always his real…

AltTxt1 : In the wilderness

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:53:00 -0600

More spreads from Odyssey, my (primary) ongoing altered text project and the reason for bringing this blog back from the brink of death. As usual, these pages are presented in no particular order.

« pages 56 & 57 »
The media for this spread are watercolor with colored pencils, and of course, the Pitt pen for lines.

Text:
in the moonlight
tonight, tonight
in the dark
late at night

after a…

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,…

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…

AltTxt : "Process On"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:00:00 -0600

Here are a couple more spreads from "Odyssey," my long-term altered text project.

« Pages 136 & 137 »
For such a very brief page (only 4-5 short paragraphs) as 136, there was quite a gathering of the word "do" (also present in "does" and "don't") which was impossible to pass over. Fortuitously, the page is also in an ideal location of the story for indicating a wholehearted agreement. Media: gesso,…

AltTxt : "a big open space"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0600

More pages from "Odyssey," my ongoing altered text book project.

« Pages 80 & 81 »
The media for this spread were watercolors and colored pencil on a gesso base.

I was attempting to use the colored pencil to emulate a particular appearance that I'd seen in an abstract oil painting. About halfway along, I forgot about the oil painting look and just continued playing with what the pencils were doing.…

AltTxt : "I saw smiling"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:05:00 -0600

« Pages 60 & 61 »

Media for these pages include gesso, marker, ballpoint, watercolors, colored pencils and opalescent smiley-face stickers.

Yes, really. Opalescent smiley-face stickers. They don't look exactly as the scan shows (because of the opalescent factor being difficult to scan) but it's close enough to give a pretty good idea. Which came first, the stickers or the page? The stickers came first and presented the challenge to work…

AltTxt : "seriously, defiantly seriously"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:25:00 -0600

A year after beginning my altered text project, it is still happily in progress and slowly but surely coming along. Here's some more from it.

« Pages 70 & 71 »
The media for this spread include watercolor and colored pencils on a gesso base.

After having completed the initial inking and while in the middle of applying the gesso, I noticed there was a much better word choice for "description"…

AltTxt: "Luminous, beautiful, bright"

noreply@blogspirit.com (Silver) — Sun, 07 May 2006 18:45:00 -0500

At long last, a chance to post some more pages from my altered text project. I'm nurturing a new routine at this time, in which I ink a new page and gesso a previously-inked spread each day. I'm still scrambling to fit in coloring/painting time, but it's good to have progress of some degree being made on a more regular basis for this project.

« Pages 78 & 79 »
Media…