2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 175

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 175: How Deep Do I Have to Dig?

Time Travel: Fashion Forward

Collage: Fashion Forward, circa 1985 (Owned by B. Wheately)

This collage I created around 1985. It was purchased by a dear friend of mine. I loved the feeling and color of the lake water and mountains of the Western skies. The fashion model in her sapphire blue suit seemed to stride so confidently across the concrete wall. I injected a bit of humor with the little missy from a bygone era striding behind her. Some things never change in the world of women and clothes! The altered frame is from the 20's.

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 174

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 174: The Great Trial of My Life

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 173

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 173: The Secret of Spices?

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 172

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 172: Be Bewitched

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 171

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 171: Beauty Adventures

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 170

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 170: Women Who Wander

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 169

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 169: In A Changing World

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 168

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 168: Animal Instinct

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 167

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 167: Ignore History Anything, Everything Is Possible

Tiny Green Journal: Stranger in Paradise

Tiny Green Journal: Getting Wild and Green

Tiny Green Journal: Colony

Techniques: Library Card Pocket

"Techniques 2010"Altered Book Spread: Not in Your Address Book

This is a very simple altered book technique: create a pocket on one of your pages. It can hold a photo, a tag, a piece of material, a small greeting card, a cut out object, a folded up list of favorite things -- just use your imagination! The pocket on this page is a plain manila library card pocket -- you know the ones that used to be in the back of library books. You can purchase them online in so many styles, sizes, and paperweights. I like the manila ones because you can decorate them to your heart's content -- paint it, stamp on it, cover it with paper, add a picture like I did here. I rummaged around in my studio and found an old address book of my grandmother's -- probably from the 60's or 70's -- and it slipped right into the pocket. I recognized her handwriting and some of the names and places she wrote in there. I liked the image of the woman looking back over her shoulder. Is she referring to her grandmother's book, or somebody else's? A mystery -- how could she ever be excluded from someone's heart?

Materials and mediums used in this spread: rubber stamp ink pads, oil pastels, gold pen, rubber stamps, ribbon, glue.

Altered Book Technique: Library Pocket

Tiny Green Journal: Sing Again and Again

The Collage Cafe: Surprising Developments!

Ingrid S.'s Spread

Catherine L.'s Spread

The Collage Cafe at Stage Dor

Well, I was surprised -- right from the start! I only had 4 people register for the Cafe. Then 3 more committed 2 hours before the Cafe. So in setting up the room, I allowed for a few extra. I ran out to buy some more used books for people to select from. At 2:35pm there were 11 participants! There an incredible amount of activity, excitement, and motion; a few creative freak outs and breakthroughs; and much laughter. Once again it was a joy and surprise for me to see what people ended up creating amidst the chaotic mess of paper arts. Every person's style is different and reflects their inner and outer processes -- habits, likes, dislikes, emotional states, curiosity, and joy. Photos are from the workshop and for a complete viewing go here. We had so much fun that we decided to hold a Collage Cafe every month! The next one is scheduled for Saturday, October 16!

France's Spread

Gail's Spread

Judy E's Spread

Doree C.'s Graffiti Spread

Ingrid L.'s Spread

Bonnie N.'s Spread

Sasha's Spread

For more photos from this workshop go here...

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 166

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 166: I Hold Your Heart

In My Garden: Sweet California Fall Morning Light

Time Travel: Here's Looking at You

Philly Altered Journal Spread: Here's Looking at You, circa 2007

"It's all irrelevant
I know that memory grows crooked...
they've wanted to find you for a very long time..."

Time Travel: Heart, You Plucked Mine

Philly Altered Journal Spread: Heart, You Plucked Mine, circa 2007

"Heart, you plucked mine
Loosely swirling round a [dance pole]
Rings and fingers
Kisses swallowed hole
The threat of never --
That dark and secret path
Imagine my surprise at that..."

Time Travel: Your Eyes

Philly Altered Journal Spread: Your Eyes, circa 2007

"So there you aren't
and here you are
and there you never were.
And so I feast at gazing in your eyes
when every time you peer at me
from out a fluttering window..."

Experiments: Here's Lookin' at You

Altered Book Techniques 2010 Spread: Here's Lookin' at You

Experimenting with techniques to use in workshops. Using gesso, drawing in gesso with graphite pencil and stylus, water-soluble crayons, non-soluble oil pastels, rubber stamp, stamp ink.

Tiny Green Journal: Storybook Creatures

Tiny Green Journal: Sing Out Your Song

In My Garden: Summer Evening Light

Time Travel: He Liked My Cat

MizAdventures Altered Book Spread: He Liked My Cat, c. 2008

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 165

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 165: Imagine That

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 164

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 164: The Key to the Holy Joy

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 163

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 163: Yield A Luminous Pearl

Experiment: An Image from a Past Life

My art instructor, Sabrina, asked me in one of my lessons earlier this spring, to do an "imaginary drawing" using ink wash and Chinese brush pen, while she read out loud this portion from a Yeats poem:

Never until this night have I been stirred.
The elaborate star-light has thrown reflections
On the dark stream,
Till all the eddies gleam;
And thereupon there comes that scream
From terrified, invisible beast or bird:
Image of poignant recollection.

-- from An Image from a Past Life
by William Butler Yeats

Irish Poet
1865-1939

In My Garden: Smell the Roses

Tournament of Roses

Mystery Rose

Tournament of Roses

In Spite Of...

In spite of a constant battle with procrastination and what feels like a totally chaotic art studio...I am going in and out of of the art room today...cleaning up, clearing off, finishing some journal pages, posting. I need to make some new necklaces and a custom for this weekend. I need to pull things together for the Collage Cafe workshop I'm teaching this weekend. I need to not feel so scattered and to focus on generating...generating...generating. What a tyrant the mind is! I need to take a deep breath and smell the roses!

Tiny Green Journal: Cheerfully Pointing Out

Tiny Green Journal: Cheerfully Pointing Out, c. 2010

Tiny Green Journal: Wonders If It Is Possible

Tiny Green Journal: Wonders If It Is Possible c. 2010

Tiny Green Journal: Ganesh's Path

Tiny Green Journal: Ganesh's Path c. 2010

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge...Day 162

2010 Daily Journal Page Challenge -- Day 162: New and Improved