13Sep
Weathered A Mixed Media Artist Book
Disclaimer…the video process for me is not a natural one! I just get into what I’m doing without even a thought of turning on the camera. That’s one scenario, the other is I think it’s on, it wasn’t or the latest one is all super duper fast mode and I haven’t a clue how that happened! So that is sort of an explanation for the lack of a process video for the collage process part of the journal. One day it will happen….but for now, well, Mariah has pieced together an amalgam of short videos into a cohesive, hopefully, instructive video. I always promise her I will do better in the future and I intend to…;)
“Weathered” is simple in its parts… a two-piece cover made with homemade modeling paste (yes, indeed there is a VIDEO for that 🏔Texture) and chipboard; one large 18×18” piece of the Pacon, craft-roll paper, folded, collaged on one side, drawn and color penciled on the backside, then cut into the pattern for the continuous fold journal ( consult the Lydia Rink video for this process), Closure is a length of sari ribbon crocheted into a wrap with a painted button at the end. The handful of photos from Alaska was distressed to continue with the theme of “Weathered”. The letter was a last-minute solution to our problem of how to showcase the photos within the journal in a manner that didn’t distract from either the artwork or the photos. It was also a way to logically explain the distressed condition of the photos.
In our process video, we take you through the not-so-simple metamorphosis of the cover. It was not so much a problem of a complicated process but rather a series of failures in the area of product choices. You don’t know what you don’t know until you do! That “do” sometimes takes a lot of time! The cover that is there is the 3rd one that emerged; the others will grace the cover of something else or maybe a swap…Lots of learning about what not to do occurred during the making of “Weathered”.
What to do next? Just got my first gelli plate and it is so much fun! Not sure where the new process will take us but it will be different.
So sally forth you creative geniuses! Get out there and make something remarkable!
