2003.05: CandyPug Animals

September 13th, 2003

Trade 2003.05: hosted by CandyPug
5; Theme: your pet or any animal you find interesting
Submitted JEB-ATC2003.06.02-06 on 2003/09/15

JEB-ATC2003.06.01-06

September 13th, 2003

Cat Weave for HeyMaggie
(Click for the series album)

I have countless photos of our three Grey Cats, often doing the same thing as in a photo from three, five, seven years ago. (The digital camera is just making this even more the case.) I had taken a number of photos out of my archive boxes some time ago, so i don’t have the metadata for these images at hand. I’ll just keep this series open and add the Grey Cat inspired photo cards to the series until next year.

JEB-ATC2003.06.01: Cat Weave for HeyMaggie
2003/08/23
She had posted about paper weaving to ATC-hub just after i experimented with it. After looking around on her site, i thought i’d try weaving a cat for her.
Mounted with Mod Podge directly on the card stock. The photo is from the Philly era; Grey Brother on my desk.

JEB-ATC2003.06.02: Cat Weave
2003/08/23
Trying again. Another Philly era photo, but of Grey Beard. On this one i made sure all the ends were well taped and then i used Avery Permanent Glue Stic to mount it to the Flax paper sample, which was Avery mounted to the card stock. The cats all look far more golden hued than grey in the incandescent light.

JEB-ATC2003.06.03: Bright Idea
2003/08/23
Grey Brother, Philadelphia, on desk under lamp
(multiple copies of this photo exist)

JEB-ATC2003.06.04: Super Nap
2003/08/23
Grey Brother, Philadelphia

JEB-ATC2003.06.05: Playtime
2003/09/13
Grey Brother
Flax papers on cardstock with Avery Permanent Glue Stic. Photo segments with Mod Podge. The tail is actually from Grey Beard! More Philly-era cats on desk.

JEB-ATC2003.06.06: Sunrise
2003/09/13
Grey Brother, Philadelphia
(photo with star filter; several versions of this photo exist — different camera settings)

HeyMaggie’s Paper Weaves

September 13th, 2003

Paper weave
(Click for all nine)

When i first signed up at ATC-hub, HeyMaggie shared her paper weaves with the group. I had just experimented with my first photo weaves so i shared back. Eventually, we actually shared — i sent a cat weave for her feline art call and she sent me nine of her weaves in return.

How generous! I am amazed by how prolific many of the folks on the ATC-hub must be as i realize how many cards it takes to do some of these 9/9 trades.

HeyMaggies’s cards arrived last Friday, just before a very stressful week for me. Her handmade envelope of grey and black checks, with stamps and stickers and a fun assortment of us stamps was great fun to receive. The nine paper weaves all were full of energy — energy giving — as well as a fun spin art CD. I had a hard time picking out one to feature. I really like the one in the middle of the top row, but this orange one stands out for me in a different way. Words like pure and clean don’t capture the emotional impact i get from the card, but they’ll have to do. Maybe it’s the complementary colors , maybe it’s the triple circle.

2003.04: drumturtle 40th birthday

September 5th, 2003

Trade 2003.04: hosted by drumturtle
3-10 ; all subjects/themes/styles (Paul’s 40th Birthday!)
SUBMITTED:
JEB-ATC2003.02.04-06 (photos),
JEB-ATC2003.05.[03.05.07] (Silence series, oils),
JEB-ATC2003.05.08-10 (Silence series, acrylic),
JEB-ATC2003.07.01 (altered book),
and a special, simple birthday wish ATC on 2003/09/05.

JEB-ATC2003.07.01

September 5th, 2003

Old and New
(Click for the series album)

Hans Küng’s Does God Exist, Experiments in Altered Books

The binding of this 1981 “Fine Vintage Books Edition” has come almost completely off, and the pages are very yellowed. A number of pages are fairly torn, as well. Instead of recycling, it will become my first altered book. (Or collection of altered book pages….) [Frisket question at Nness]

The Edition

JEB-ATC2003.07.01 : Old and New
2003/09/05
Frisket masking of the text circled in Higgins Waterproof Caligraphy ink, soft pastels. Page 347 of the text, from a section on “Darwin’s evolutionary thinking.” The selected text ( / a line break in the bubble; … words omitted by the bubble; | a new bubble):

man/the animal | old … faith | new … understanding | new understanding | old … faith | old faith | old faith | deeper understanding of God | deeper understanding of creation | deeper understanding

JEB-ATC2003.05.08-10

September 5th, 2003

A week or so ago, I played with acrylics and Golden Gel Medium (gloss). I enjoyed mixing the colors into the medium — although some of the acrylics in my palette were a bit stiff — and painted over a piece of scrap cardboard (roughly 9″ square). Part of my attraction to ATCs is the ability to free things i’ve meade, even experiments, instead of hording them. So, i’ve cut out four regions as ATCs. They’re part of the Silence series because i was trying to get that same sense across, but it didn’t quite work, particularly cut down to ATC size.

I’ve taken some photos of these and will add to the gallery; the photos aren’t as good as the scans were were getting. *sigh*

The Editions

JEB-ATC2003.05.08 : Grow 1
2003/09/05
(magenta/red slash)

JEB-ATC2003.05.09 : Grow 2
2003/09/05
(yellow green; more translucent)

JEB-ATC2003.05.10 : Grow 3
2003/09/05
(two toned)

Copper Dragon of the Earring Hoard

September 1st, 2003

Dragon Head

I didn’t need to start *another* project this weekend, but did, by accident.

This dragon’s head is made of sculpey, fimo, formello, and other plastic-clays over an armature of Paragona aluminum 1/16″ pattern contour mesh. [Item 212 Reorder number 50004D]

I pulled apart a framed print (water damaged), repainted the frame black, and have begun tacking a copper mesh [1/4" copperform mesh: Item 216, Reorder number 50008H] inside the frame. When it’s done, i’ll be able to hang French wire earrings from the wire mesh and keep the occasional earring back in the dragon’s mouth.

Paragona WireForm Modeling WireMesh(TM) is AMACO (American Art Clay Co., Inc.) 4717 W 16th St, Indianapolis, IN 46222

Bookbinding

August 24th, 2003

http://www.geocities.com/thiswomansrevolution/diy/bookbinding.html

This may actually be what i want to do, except instead of slots & tabs, i’ll affix the pages permanently. And i won’t have nearly as elegant a cover.

I think the test book will be a collection of cards and postcards — correspondence.

http://www.philobiblon.com/tutorials.htm

http://www.temperproductions.com/QJ-how-to/adhesive%20quarter-jointe.htm

— i don’t have the press, but i don’t expect to be fan gluing the block, either.

http://www.axs4u.net/home/inksmith/jun00.htm

— tyvek techniques

http://people.whitman.edu/~winkleal/fiction/coptic.htm

— coptic binding
AHA!

http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/betty/

— double guarded binding!! This is it!!!

CandyPug’s Animal ATCs

August 23rd, 2003

Pug Magic - I
(Click for all five)
Candy Phillips ATCs
Top, left to right: “Pug Under the Autumn Moon” 4/7 ; “Inside Looking Out” 5/13 ; “Pug Magic – I” 12/17
Bottom, left to right: “What can you See?” 6/9 ; “Proud Pug” 2/9

Candy’s included some wonderful dimensional elements in “…Autumn Moon” and the fence in “Pug Magic – I.” I’m blown away by the color application in the rooster stamp. The matting/framing is done so neatly on all of these — i’m challenged to get neater with my cards! I’m fascinated by the image production in the bottom two — I think they’re both produced with a transparency, but i’m not sure. Lovely, all!

I believe these are for a trade I’ve signed up for with a September 30th deadline. Oh my!

2003.07: HeyMaggie Feline Art

August 23rd, 2003

2003.07: hosted by Heymaggie
1; Theme: Feline Art
Submitted JEB-ATC2003.06.01 on 2003/08/25