I may have been absent but I haven't been slacking.
More work has been done on the pages for a new artist book, the one you saw here.
Another embroidery hoop has also been completed, these little pieces being explained in this post and in addition to their use in that project they also provide me with an invaluable stash when putting artist books together.
Today though, today I am going to work a little more on this.
My next artist book is taking shape.
This one will have three inch square pages.
In the video I speak about the value of having a 'stash', a collection of little pieces of work which are invaluable when putting your page embellishments together.
These can be created from paper or cloth, in fact it's good to have a contrast of surfaces to play with.
This is how my table looked after yesterdays post.
Lots of cards waiting to be stitched and embellished.
I'm starting with torn paper.
Gathering has been happening.
Design sheets, colour swatches, tiny stitched collages.
Moving on my 'folded pages' exploration...hopefully anyway.
I need thinking time.
More tiny stitched collages are on the way and whilst I'm creating those?
Thinking time.
I've been developing design ideas in my 'folded pages' artist book.
At some point I would like to move these ideas to fabric and my brain is working oveertime on that idea.
Meanwhile I will continue stitching pages and moving this work on.
We've been folding pages in class.
Working like this with your artist book pages opens up more possibilities for pattern placement and can inspire ideas for fabric manipulation.
If you like to draw or paint this process would also inspire using those media.
I have a lot more plans for this work and am already considering how these ideas will transfer to cloth.
This little artist book is finished. I Love it.
Another one will be on the way very soon and I'm hoping it will be a little bit different.
The 'old' artist books in this post are providing lots of inspiration.
More work on my little artist book.
Each page here is four inches square.
I'm almost there, almost finished with my embellishments.
The weaving is ribbon and torn magazine pages secured with French knots.
Other new additions have mainly come from my stash but the patchwork piece was put together yesterday and isn't finished yet.
Also, gimp secured to a page with couching...quite tricky to stitch but worth it I think.
I'm off here after lunch.
I'll see you when I get back x
You will notice in this post, there is a little book attached to a page. A book within a book.
(also in that post, a short video, a show and tell)
The little book within a book now has more added to each page, snippets of embroidery, beads and tiny pom poms.
You can see the little embroidery snippets in the following images of my embroidery hoop.