art every day

Susan B. Anthony Paper Doll Art Every Day 295

The owner of the Notorious Women book I was working in asked that we all make a paper doll for the book.  Keeping with my digital theme:

Based on a picture from the Library of Congress

 

 

Susan B. Anthony Digital Page Art Every Day 294

Here is the final page I made for an altered book round-robin I participated in.  The owner likes digital images so I thought I would do a digital page for her book.

The theme was Notorious Women.  I chose Susan B. Anthony, social activist, suffragette, educational reformer and labor activist.

Celtic JOY Book Round Robin Art Every Day 261

I finished and submitted this today in my mixed media group.  This is B-'s book and her theme I had to work with was Celtic.

I was inspired by my art history class and a Norwegiean church we studied. 

This was an old board book and the right side page was a puzzle.  Most of the pieces are glued in, but I left a few empty for depth. 

The book binding split while I was working with it, so I glued it together as best I could and decided to fill the space with 'old artifacts'. 

The weird eternity thing with heads is supposed to be a zoomorphic interweaved piece.  The small heads are snakes and the large heads are gryphons. 

On the left is a scottish thistle (LOVE).  I love thistles! [on a side note, the garden I used to work for had a HUGE thistle in it, loved that...almost as tall as I am.  They also used the thistle as part of their logo.]

The words around the thistle read:

May love and laughter light your days,
and warm your heart and home.
May good and faithful friends be yours,
wherever you may roam.
May peace and plenty bless your world
with joy that long endures.
May all life's passing seasons
bring the best to you and yours!

 

Altered Art Sewing Book Art Every Day 239

 
Okay, so this isn't what I worked on today...that's coming later.  BUT!  Remember all those days I was sick?  this is what I worked on in baby steps around that time.

Part of the Altered Book Round-Robin I am participating in right now.

The theme:  SEWING

 

 

Completed Steampunk Round Robin Pages Art Every Day 220

Okay, lots of pictures of the finished steampunk pages I made!

 
 

I even got to use my dremel for this one!

Next theme?  Sewing!

 

What did you make today?

Steampunk Edition Round Robin Day 218 & 219

Okay, so here is my unfinished, feeble attempt at a Steampunk Style Round Robin Altered Book page...or 2 pages.

I guess I don't totally grasp the whole thing...victorian meets mechanical meets modern/robot?  I stuck with the victorian/mechanical.  So far Ihave incorporated a spinning filamentous light-bulb (collage) and a spinning hot air balloon.  Tomorrow I have a bunch of metal bits and some text to add.

 
One side of the light-bulb

 
One side of the hot-air balloon

 

I liked the idea of two similarly shaped objects placed side by side...I'm not sure how it reads...

Altered Book Round-Robin Art Every Day 184-185

Okay, my fingers are basically still glued together...all in the name of ART!  So...I joined a new Mixed Media Group, and our first project is an altered book.  You can find out lots of information about altered books all over the internet.  I won't bore you with the details...Old book, make it into art, enjoy.  Think of the book as your canvas.

Let's just say I had OVER A MONTH to get my book prepped and ready for trading.  I did it last night. seriously. Like 8 hours in the studio making it happen. Why do I procrastinate so? 

I had actually started a few weeks ago, and screwed the book up, couldn't use it because I tore up the thread the pages are sewn in with...therefore all of the pages were falling out.  Do not make this mistake.

Then, I started a second book, but forgot to put some sort of protective layer (I used freezer paper) between two of the page sections...so I had a few good pages and the rest of the book was glued together...not in a good way.  Do not make this mistake either.

So, while I was at the thrift store the other day I noticed a game that was missing all it's pieces except for the little personal gameboards-- about 7inX7in square chipboards.  I couldn't resist at 25cents, thinking I'd use them for something.  These became my book!

A drill, two holes, and some binder rings later I had a book, right?  RIGHT!  A non-traditional book, but still a book.

Please excuse the pictures...in my sleep-deprived state I forgot to take pictures, these were taken on the trunk of my car in the parking lot of the cafe we were meeting in.  boo.

Cover...not complete, I figure I will artify the cover after it returns to me, to keep it from getting beat up.

These are the inside cover pages, the left is the theme of my book for the other artists to follow...Fly Free.  The right page is the sign-in page, I included a bookmarky-tag thing for everyone to art up and sign in with.  Lots of loose threads, layers and collage on these pages!

These are the pages I did for my theme, There are five other ladies that will be working in my book over the next 5 months.  I won't get my book back until JUNE!!  ahhh, I'll make it!

This a blank page primed for another artist, each artist will complete a 2 page spread ( right and left page)

These are the end pages, last page and inside of the back cover!

 

Hope you enjoyed this, I can't wait to start on the book I got today, her theme is Steam Punk, wish me luck!

 

What did you make today?