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Did this for a Hallowe'en prop at work this week and very pleased with result. It's large and theatrical and possibly a little real-er than strictly necessary for entertaining children. All it is is crumpled brown tissue paper over red construction paper, covering part of a cardboard box and smothered in Mod Podge.Did this for a Hallowe'en prop at work this week and very pleased with result. It's large and theatrical and possibly a little real-er than strictly necessary for entertaining children. All it is is crumpled brown tissue paper over red construction paper, covering part of a cardboard box and smothered in Mod Podge.
Storage book II
Oct. 7th, 2024 10:38 pm
I spent a great deal of time in a dentist's chair today, but still found time to work on this project. The red and yellow paper is Canson Colorline (150gsm) and I think it works just as well as the heavier white cover-weight card. This project is testing out the construction rather than a fully realized bookwork, but I think it has a lot of promise for me.Storage book
Oct. 6th, 2024 05:39 pm
It's a rainy afternoon in Florida (a foretaste of Hurricane Milton?) so I spent some quiet time getting started on a 'storage book.' (Instructions at creativebug.com.) My accordion-fold spine looks good, but the windowed page is a little sloppy; needs to be adhered at the head and tail, and the image could've been better affixed.
Pretty things
Oct. 4th, 2024 08:56 pmCame across two beautiful works of art today, while researching online. Thought of Emerson's quote ("Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God’s handwriting–a wayside sacrament.") and figured I'd share these.
First, the artists book, 'Reliquary,' by Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, 2015. This may be the best mix of book, box, and frame that I've found in my long-standing investigation of the form:
Artist's website.
And this digital artists print I saw used as cover art for a music album: 'Voyage Pittoresque #4' by Ruud Van Empel, 2016. The full picture is jaw-droppingly beautiful. I can't imagine what it would be like in person. sometime about the mix of forest realism and digital hyperreality resonates very strongly, as I am in the very stages of pursuing a druidical nature spirituality. How colorful --how impossibly colorful-- will my path be, I wonder?
Gallery website.
First, the artists book, 'Reliquary,' by Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, 2015. This may be the best mix of book, box, and frame that I've found in my long-standing investigation of the form:
Artist's website.
And this digital artists print I saw used as cover art for a music album: 'Voyage Pittoresque #4' by Ruud Van Empel, 2016. The full picture is jaw-droppingly beautiful. I can't imagine what it would be like in person. sometime about the mix of forest realism and digital hyperreality resonates very strongly, as I am in the very stages of pursuing a druidical nature spirituality. How colorful --how impossibly colorful-- will my path be, I wonder?
Gallery website.
