More Accordion Book Collaborations

I am doing a couple more accordion book collaborations-  The first one is with Julie Miller. http://www.haggisvitae.com/.  I am excited to see what she does with this start and I am excited to see what her book start will be like.

This next book start is with Suzanne Jarvis.  http://www.suzannejarvis.com/  It is always fun to do these and then the anticipation of what she will add to this.  I also look forward to her book start.

Round Robin

I am in a Round Robin with 6 other wonderful artists.  Each month we do an 8 inch square for one of the group- at the end we will have squares from everyone including ourselves. These are folded in what is called the Turkish Map Fold.  They will be glued to one another and will make like a pop-up book. Here is a link how the squares are folded. http://www.greenchairpress.com/blog/?page_id=1944
So this is the square I made for Jacki Long. http://jackilong.blogspot.com/ In  older posts I showed an accordion book collaboration I did with Jacki.  The next square is the one I did for Michele Rawlings Unger.  http://bellstjournal.blogspot.com/  The next one is the one I did for Irene Rafael. http://irenerafael.blogspot.com/  Then the one I did for Brian Kasstle. http://apaperbear.wordpress.com/ And last is the square I made for John Arbuckle- this is the artist that organized this caper. http://artjuvenation.blogspot.com/.   I forgot to scan the one I made for Thomas LaBadia and I haven't made the one for myself yet.

Directed Collage

I am doing the exercises in the book: The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity by Nick Bantock- some of you may know his Griffin and Sabine series. This is one of the exercises- a directed collage- he has you follow a list of things like paint half the paper with a color and half can be done in different ways- then add tissue paper and so on- It was so fun and such a different way to work.

On A Roll

Here are 9 more 4" X 6" collages.  I find these so addictive to make.  I love using scraps of my monoprints for the back grounds.  I came across some paper doll clothes from the 50s I think- that I forgot I had.  Those were very fun to work with here.

The Assertive Muse

These two collages came about from what I feel was my assertive muse.  I was in the studio sorting the stacks of  Gelli prints I have- Gelli prints are monoprints done with acrylic paint on a Gelli plate- I don't often plug products but this one is wonderful as I can monoprint with out a press with acrylic paint so it is water clean up.  Anyway I use my monoprints often for collage back grounds- sometimes cutting them up- in fact my previous post with the house collages is an example of that.  So I was sorting and I came across two that I was liking a lot and set them aside.  Then I just stopped and started looking for imagery and that's how these two collages came about.  They are around 8 X 10 inches.

Another Untold Story

River of Worry

And Now For Something Completely Different

Yes as they said on Monte Python... I just completed this suite of collages yesterday. I used cut up Gelli plate monoprint scraps for the backgrounds. I have been just loving Cleo Allan's work and so Cleo you inspired these. These are all 4" x 6". The fun altered houses are from a very fun clip art set from Marsha Salyer Jorgeneon. She is TumbleFish Studio. http://tumblefishstudio.blogspot.com/ Anyway I printed those out small to use in this set of collages. So they were cutout with my trusty X-acto.

Tired of the Hate

This spread needs no title. I have found that when things build up- the best release is to do a journal spread.  The recent wild fire of anti-gay laws passed and pending is so disheartening and scary.  Just when it seemed things were turning around this wave of hate is so very hard to cope with.