Again I painted a sheet of thick cartridge paper with green tea and covered it with rusty objects. This time instead of using tissue paper I covered it with a piece of cotton fabric. As before this produced 2 designs in one process. Don't you love that?!
And here are the resulting pieces:
The cartridge paper
I have put this aside to use for another time.
effect reminds me of my trip. Lots of my photos are of rusted objects (yes I know some people take scenery, and I took those too!) and leaving home I selected a few of these photos and printed them on to tracing paper.
I loved the rust print on this cartridge paper so when Alice Fox suggested we experiment with simple book folds I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I had made this structure before and knew these photos would be perfect, so instead of a sample I went straight in to produce a finished book. And here it is, one side of the paper folded and cut:
And the other side:
I need to add a title and I will continue to work on this book a little more. I may add a few words or a poem and this is my usual style of working.... make a start and then let ideas germinate. Often the book directs and I follow. I love how sometimes I do not know the outcome until it reveals itself.
On to the cover I have glued a piece of a photo. Remember it is printed onto tracing paper? The transparency allows a blending of background and image and if you look close you might be able to make out a section of a large bollard on a quayside, used for tying up ships and boats. This is meant to be Bookart rather than a book of photos. It may feature in an exhibition of my work in November but that's another story so more about that another time.
On the back of the printed side I have glued more photos. I love how the book forms interesting shapes....
And when you fold it, you can turn the pages. See - it is a book!
