Once again, blogger seems confused about how and where to place the images when I upload multiples.
The first image is the book's cover, by owner/artist Theresa Petermann of Pulaski, WI.

These are the latest from the Altered Book Round Robin, part of the Visual Journal Collective at Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. The second image is Out of Chaos (the second). It was produced first as a collage; a photo of the collage was downloaded to the computer, altered slightly (text added etc) and then printed onto Extravorganza. The fabric print was stamped (bird image in silver) and painted (watercolor), then glued to white tissue paper, which was in turn glued to white drawing paper. This gave the piece a somewhat translucent but bright base; the Extravorganza doesn't hold a very intense image. I sewed the resulting piece onto a page in the book, added some embellishments, and made a pocket behind it to hold some related ephemera (including a tag used in the original collage.)

The piece with the silver leaf "cloud" and the feather is Out of Chaos (the first.) This is just tissue paper and mylar on a drawing paper base, with some white acrylic paint around the edges. The feather is in mylar; the silver leaf is on the page behind the mylar. Two pages were removed from the book to make room; you see the remaining tabs to the left of the image. It's a Blue Jay feather.

Two pages in a book about "winged creatures," both titled Out of Chaos. The original volume in use is a style manual, and the title comes from the chapter heading for one of the sections in which I worked.

The lettered index tabs were added by the owner of the book.

a little more catch-up

"Ash Wednesday" front and back. 8x14" 2006.

a little catch-up

Here are the back and front views of a quilt I completed for my neice, in December of 2007. Not such great photos but all I had time for -- since I finished for Christmas and shipped it on the 22nd! The pattern is "garden path." I called this "Chloe's Garden."

dia de los muertos

This last altered-book project is a three-page spread that takes advantage of the unique construction of the book. This is a large-format picture book with pop-ups and flaps. Only the first few pages of the book were printed; the rest is blank white, still containing the added features. The originating artist found the unprinted book in a second-hand book store for 75 cents and rightly discerned its wealth of potential.

She chose the book's Dia de los Muertos theme. My piece incorporates a facing page (left), the back cover of the book on the inside complete with the nine inset rectangles, and a flap that folds over the back cover interior. This flap has been machine cut to create a "window" of pierced paper in the image of a dragon climbing a flowering tree. My work was simply to decorate and adapt the three-page spread.

The book is about 9 1/2" by 11" by 1 3/4" in size, closed. The left-hand page is completed using laser transfer emulsion, laser print, acrylic paint, stamping and tissue paper. The flap on the right is completed using acrylic paint and tissue paper. The central collection of insets is mixed media and includes a variety of found objects, cloth, acrylic paint, laser transfer, waxed cookie wrappers ("Ines Rosales"), beads and etc.

June/July Book Arts Round Robin