HERE I am, posting my art journal page I have arranged with one of the pieces from the guerrilla valentine left around town before Valentine's Day. (See below for more information on this.)I will go first so those of you who are shy may try and do something similar with the pages from your packet. I gave away all my colorful string, so that did not make it on to my page.
I am working in an old book on Beethoven. It is really a wonderful tome and I hate to ruin it, but actually I want to think I'm not ruining it, but just turning it to another purpose.
Artistic recycling! Yeah, that's it!
So here I began painting the page over with white gesso and green acrylic paint - going every which way.
Then I put down a piece of painted newspaper (it's on the left) with glue and I glued down the picture of Sainte Therese with matte gel medium.
Next I gave her a sort of a collar with one of the pages of Beethoven's music. Holes are punched in it to give it the look of lace. (Those eyes! Aren't they piercing? I was going to use the other side, but when I saw the eyes I had to add them as part of the rendezvous.
Now the word "rendezvous" taken from a photocopy. You have that too, if you have one of the guerrilla valentine packets. Now what? I asked myself and just puttered on. Working with glue and a paintbrush is fun after a day at the computer.
I used an Exacto
knife and cut out a stencil of a bird and then blotted on paint in the stencil. I came up with some birds for Sainte Therese, to sing sweetly in her ear.Finally I ripped some strips of rose-colored paper from a magazine, with some musical notes on them. The word "rendezvous" written out in stabilo pencil and a little glitter, just for good measure was last.
It's no work by a Picasso or anything, but it is very therapeutic. Exactly what I needed tonight.
NOW let's see what you can do. If you found one of these valentines, please let me know. If you don't want to comment, go to my profile on the right, click and you'll find a place to e-mail me. It's safe and might just be fun! - femminismo
This is FANTASTIC! I've not done any altered books yet, but they are on my list of things to try out. You've given me incentive to start sooner than later.
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~Barb~
Fantastic page and idea. I will store that one away for our textile group next year!!!
ReplyDeletei would definitley keep both blogs linked...i LOVE the idea of leaving the artwork to be found..
ReplyDeletegrrl does stuff like that too and she gets the most interesting results from it alll
hmmm
maybe i should do a project like this
hhhhhmmmm
:)
Are you going to do another rendezvous project? Maybe you should leave them around a college campus - you might get more online junkies there - they would know what to do. I love this idea - I hope you do it again. It's reminding of that thing people do by going all over the world to sign in a guest book hidden in the woods or someplace ....
ReplyDeleteI am sooooo loving this whole concept & am keeping my fingers crossed that the other Valentine recipients turn up ... tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteSo fun! I found you on eye candy...Candace's blog.I would love one of your valentines if it is not too late. I'm always looking for new ideas for my art journals.
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