Before letting go of Art & Soul for the year I'm going to post a couple of random photos and photos I took during the winter journal class I took, which was a combination painting, bookbinding and altered photo class.
First, the random photos.
This is a french bottle drying rack and it belongs to my amazing friend and sista, Shari. Shari has a business - Southern Charm - and makes the most out of her week at A&S by selling at vendor night. To do that she has to pack as much as her display and jewelry as she can and take it on the plane. This was packed in her suitcase! And it made it! I'll just never get over that.
It even comes with instructions and it makes a great display for her necklaces and charms. I'd love to have one - one Christmas JC and I saw one that had been made into a Christmas tree with old colored bottles and little white lights. Beautiful.
These are paintings Shari did in Stephanie Lee's class - using topping compound for texture, letting it dry overnight and then working on the surface with a variety of mediums. I think they are so beautiful.
This is what the table in our hotel room looked like the whole time we were there. We'd simply sweep a little space free if we wanted to eat in the room.
These are the papers I painted for my journaling class. We did this one evening, left them to dry and returned the next day to bind them together. These were painted not with brushes but using credit cards to scrape the paint across the surface and stencils.
The paint is thin, too, or you'll get sticky pages and they take too long to dry. I kept my palette all blues and grays and a little purple thrown in, but those are the colors I think of for an eastern Sierra winter day. Particularly up high, which is where I always like to be.
After folding our papers into folios and then into signatures we were ready to bind. I can't remember the name of this binding but I'll use it again. We used cord but you can do this with leather, plastic, webbing, any number of things.
You can't really make out the purple threads in this shot but these cords are now attached to the signatures. But the covers aren't on yet. I don't think I have a photo yet of the journal with the covers on and some photos in - another time.
This class was tought by LK Ludwig, who liked to wear silly headbands to keep us all from taking it too seriously, and who showed us some wonderful ways to alter photographs we'd printed out on an inkjet printer using colored pencils, acrylic medium, soft pastels, gel pens, etc.
Now I just have to find the time to continue to work in that journal and maybe even make a couple more? I'm really having a time crisis right now and it is troubling me.
