Upcycled Books – It’s my new thing.

Well, that and I’m about to launch my second class on it. 

I've found that one may purchase Reader's Digest by the bag at second-hand stores.

I think I'd like to use a book precious to me, creating its "essence," if you will. For now, though, in my experimental stage, I'll stick with Reader's Digest.

There are some purist book sculptures using ONLY books, but I dig the multimedia approach. I might have more to say after I finish samples #2 and #3 for the class.

Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice

Finally, the tree has been integrated. The painting painted. The canvas delivered. I am left with a void in my living room and unspeakable relief.

 

So this copper tree painting…probably trickier than I thought. It was a wonderful challenge: an exercise in multimedia integration. I sat on my stool, staring at the painting upside-down, right-side up, tweaking this, changing that, and finally decided that I should probably just say “uncle.”

 

I have never had an art project end any other way.

 

And I can’t wait to tackle another.

 

On a different note, remember the illustration mentioned a few entries ago? I’m almost done! I’ve decided to use the second panel to display an excerpt from Little Big, although I haven’t decided which yet.

Just so's ya know, this pic was taken from Amazon.com.

So, as informally displayed:

The fridge gallery.

This is mainly for preview. It's a very light artwork, but it's good that way. Once the text is in panel two, I will properly photograph and upload both.

 

Here is the Kate Towers dress I referenced:

All the glory be to Kate Towers for the photo and actual dress."The End" for now, I suppose.