Monoprints

I have been doing a lot of work in my sketchbooks and I need "stuff" to create collages. I printed 35 solid sheets of various color to use at "material" for making these collages. I also made 45 monoprints to use as well.

I think the curlicues above are the foundation of this page. 

I was testing new paint pens in the above

Marks

I was sitting in a meeting and my friend was carrying a tote bag with the New Yorker logo printed on it. That is where these ideas came from.

These are sheets of 18 X 24 paper with black sumi ink using a flat brush

Sister Quilt

We decided to do two blocks a week and get this quilt done in 6+ months. We should be done with the blocks in 25 weeks then we have to assemble, sandwich and quilt.

Here are my first two blocks

Pumkin

If you can see by the handy dandy measures on my table this block is a tad over 1" square. THIS is the point when I knew I was in over my head

The pie and hot mitts

This is the block with the thumb wrong on the right mitt

Fixed

Here are my sister's first two blocks

Surface design in my sketchbook

I am really having fun in that concertina sketchbook. I have taken 6 or 8 pages and made a continuous work across the pages. I've never worked in that format before and I have to admit I am having so much fun I can't seem to stop. I have shown you the first and second spread. Here are 3 more:

Shapes

Starting to loosen up

Resists

I used oil pastels, PVC glue, matte gel medium, tulip dimensional paint and stickers (maybe more) as resists

Imaginary Landscapes

Harder to do than you might think.

A Felted Rock

Yes, one of my friend's said it is so cold out even the rocks need coats.

See the rock in 360 degrees on YouTube HERE

Wales

Here is another of the 8 page spreads I made in my new concertina sketchbook. 

Check it out on YouTube HERE

A purse from a sow's ear

Well, maybe not a purse but a sketchbook from "reclaimed" trash. I bought a sketchbook and it came in a slip case. I threw the slip case in the recycle bin but later fished it out again because it was made from heavy weight box board.

I slit off the top and bottom leaving what looked like a book.

I made a 10 signature insert and coptic stitched it with dental floss since it was waxed and would never show.

I covered the old book slip with some of my paste paper

I reinforced the spine of the book insert with a buckram "patch" and glued the insert in the book cover with gell medium.

Voilla', a new sketchbook