Making It Up - Altered Text Project

Page 18

2008-01-31T20:49:00.001Z

Medium: watercolour

Text reads:

they just shuffled around
the people seemed to be shut away
the world was different

Page 17

2008-01-31T20:47:00.001Z

Medium: watercolour, pen and ink

Text reads:

the water was dripping
a naked soul
on an endless day

Page 16

2008-01-31T20:44:00.001Z

Medium: watercolour, pen and ink.

Text reads:

the flying fish landed.

It has been a while

2007-09-10T18:12:00.000+01:00

Nearly a year since I last posted...or indeed worked in any of the three altered text books that I was doing. I had forgotten completely about two of them.
Still, striking whilst this particular iron is warmish..I decided to get on with them.
Below are the four pages done from Making It Up.
I think I may well start separate blogs for the other two, not sure yet.
I really would like to finish at least one of them, so here's hoping that putting them on a blog, or several, will spur me on.
:o)

this year was different

2007-09-10T18:10:00.001+01:00

pastels and pen

text reads:

this year was different
She was going to be much better.

experience excitement

2007-09-10T18:09:00.001+01:00

gouache and marker pen

text reads:

experience excitement

A great bowl of sea and sky, with them in the middle.

Everyone was having a high old time.

she played after dark

2007-09-10T18:07:00.001+01:00

acrylics and gouache

text reads:

she played after dark

there was a moon rippling away into the distance

she liked to feel the wind

floating letters

2007-09-10T18:05:00.001+01:00

Gouache and lettering.

text reads:

a chance to be nothing
much to be desired
floating letters

she could conjure spells

2006-10-18T18:11:00.000+01:00

Watercolour pencils

text reads:

she could conjure spells, But had begun to feel a bit strange

She spoke in some disturbing way and had other voices
and actually had a dragon

insistent nature

2006-10-18T14:57:00.000+01:00

Watercolour pencils and artists pens.

Text reads:

insistent nature was likely to turn yellow and scarlet

she slept under scarlet
endless day yellow
she a picture, white and red

a smile

2006-10-12T20:33:00.000+01:00

Gouache and pen

Text reads:

a smile could get through the ridiculous

it had been all good
the best she could remember

sharp images in her bones.

her creation lovely

2006-10-11T17:24:00.000+01:00

Conté Pastel Pencils

Text reads:

her creation lovely
a beautiful woman with a place she loved

she could imagine heaven was always now.

we teach the old word

2006-09-27T23:01:00.000+01:00

Gouache and pen.
Text reads :

we teach the old word
we say nothing
we were all friends

she loved the earth

2006-09-21T20:56:00.000+01:00

Mmm I really like this one.

Watercolour, gouache and pen.

Text reads:

she loved the earth

she had art and words

she was wild and she had a particular mentality
but
peace was felt

She was now

2006-09-20T20:26:00.000+01:00

The colours have not scanned well at all. The blue is, in fact, green and the pinks are nowhere near as pink as they look here. Gouache. Text reads:

She was now
she was silk
a self clear and round and absolutely sweet.

we seek art

2006-09-08T19:06:00.000+01:00

Background is gouache.

Text reads:

we seek art

pen a delight in orange

Must find a way to isolate the text more thoroughly or learn to paint up to and not over the lines :).
I believe that others use some sort of masking fluid/pen, will find out. Tried regular masking fluid in another book and it took the print off - so not a lot of use.

memory of a landscape

2006-09-04T20:53:00.000+01:00

Background is worked in watercolour pencils used as ordinary coloured pencils. The page was gessoed first which accounts for the irregular texture - an experiment.

Text reads:

born
memory of a landscape
out of bounds

I rest in my fantasy life

my circle a retreat

That individual chaos

2006-08-31T22:49:00.000+01:00

Background is a mixture of acrylics and gouache.

Text reads:

That individual chaos
Real life as the prompt
form imaginary gaps
disordered fictional licence.

stories - the refuge

2006-08-29T22:45:00.000+01:00

I have just started my altered-text project and this is the first page completed in my book. As it says up top the title of the book is Making It up, which is, in fact, the actual unaltered title of the original novel. I am keeping it as that for the time-being as I like it very much - it fits in with what I am doing after all!

The background is worked totally in gouache.
The text reads:

stories - the refuge
satisfying wisdoms
internal narrative
gods and goddesses
the mythology of imagined alternatives
the whole climactic life
spun off in arbitrary absolute.

I just love those words!