bluecanarykit | Altered Book (Reply)

altered book, mixed media
7.5" x 5.125" wide
march 2007
front cover

i've started my first altered book. i found a small hardcover in the bargain bin at barnes and noble and decided to give it a try.
i saw some beautiful altered books at the Ringling School of Art booth at MegaCon. that inspired me even more.
this is what i have so far...not much, but it's a work in progress.
no, the figure is not a jumper. it signifies how i've felt this past year, like the rug was ripped out from under me and i was free-falling. with friends and things to keep me busy i've felt more like i'm flying under my own control. i will be putting a lot of my emotions in this thing. it's not a call for attention. i don't want to be an lj drama whore. i'm just putting my feeling down, in art, to help me cope with them.

altered book, mixed media
march 2007
back cover

the little figure first looked too much like a suicide victim, instead of staring up at the sky and clouds like i wanted. i added a thought balloon with visual and verbal to show it's imagining shapes in the clouds.

pen on paper
drawn 3-3-07

inside the altered book, i sketched

girlwithoutfear on her computer last night. we were catching up on the massive olney thread, which has as i write this topped 1149 pages, when the board server or something stopped working. it was 15 minutes before we could get the page to load again.
this sketch is unfinished. i want to color it in.

i will periodically post pages from the book as i create them. i'm also going to be doing illustrationfriday stuff in here. see next entry.