I think this is beautiful Think of me as a bumbling old fool and explain the physical make up of the piece is it handmade paper? I would comment on your previous post but I only understood two words- trance and altered states and they're the reasons I am a bumbling old fool
it's in one of those old school 5"x8" black hardcover sketchbooks you can get pretty much everywhere (i think this one was from borders? so seven, eight bucks.) medium weight white drawing paper that you're not supposed to do washes on, but i think both pages in this spread are two pages glued together (for a more stable surface.) it's the same book housing all the entries on the visual journal tag except for the 11/19/2013 one. which is in a reclaimed emotionally difficult sketchbook that continues to be emotionally difficult.
both pages were given an alcohol drip treatment, my favorite youtube tutorial for which is here. i think the right side might have been using up some of my leftover paint from the writing journal i resurfaced a couple years back:
(clicking on the photo *should* take you to the livejournal photostream you can then click through for the whole magical cinderella story.)
back to journal pages, the right side additionally has a layer of shredded and crumpled red tissue paper glued to it as well as black masking tape running up the side. the text is written in white gel pen.
trance and altered states make bumbling old fools from a lot of us, it seems.
thank you so much for that explanation- I will follow the rest this evening. My artist friends barely tolerate me because I am so fascinated in the process Again I think its gorgeous.
thank you. and i've got a similar trip going with science, actually.
youtube technique tutorials can be profoundly therapeutic. especially because you know that in the video things are probably going to go mostly how they are supposed to go.
of course, sometimes in the actual work you drop too much salt or use the wrong kind of glue or don't let your basecoat dry enough and have to scrape off all your work with a straight razor and to be honest, sometimes that leads to discoveries you needed to make. sometimes.
other times you put the sketchbook out on the balcony for the night to think about what it's done.
I probably should do a youtube on how to gold leaf. It is just luck that keeps the sizing from completely covering me and of course by the time I have gold leafed everything within a two block radius only bits of me peak through the gilt. For weeks to follow people will tap me on the shoulder and say "do you know your ears are gold?"
i find that "i've decided to go bond villain" usually silences further inquiries.
also, i worked at a major craft retailer for a year and a half, more recently than i care to admit. i assume part of the recent sinus angst goes back to the christmas glitter's long-term colonization of the passageways.
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Date: 2015-11-03 02:49 am (UTC)Think of me as a bumbling old fool and explain the physical make up of the piece is it handmade paper?
I would comment on your previous post but I only understood two words- trance and altered states and they're the reasons I am a bumbling old fool
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Date: 2015-11-03 07:18 pm (UTC)both pages were given an alcohol drip treatment, my favorite youtube tutorial for which is here. i think the right side might have been using up some of my leftover paint from the writing journal i resurfaced a couple years back:
(clicking on the photo *should* take you to the livejournal photostream you can then click through for the whole magical cinderella story.)
back to journal pages, the right side additionally has a layer of shredded and crumpled red tissue paper glued to it as well as black masking tape running up the side. the text is written in white gel pen.
trance and altered states make bumbling old fools from a lot of us, it seems.
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Date: 2015-11-03 10:46 pm (UTC)thank you so much for that explanation- I will follow the rest this evening. My artist friends barely tolerate me because I am so fascinated in the process
Again I think its gorgeous.
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Date: 2015-11-04 04:42 pm (UTC)youtube technique tutorials can be profoundly therapeutic. especially because you know that in the video things are probably going to go mostly how they are supposed to go.
of course, sometimes in the actual work you drop too much salt or use the wrong kind of glue or don't let your basecoat dry enough and have to scrape off all your work with a straight razor and to be honest, sometimes that leads to discoveries you needed to make. sometimes.
other times you put the sketchbook out on the balcony for the night to think about what it's done.
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Date: 2015-11-05 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-05 01:14 am (UTC)also, i worked at a major craft retailer for a year and a half, more recently than i care to admit. i assume part of the recent sinus angst goes back to the christmas glitter's long-term colonization of the passageways.