F&W : "F is not E"
For this odd spread, I drew the letters in pencil, then colored them gently with crayons. To fill in the crayon, I went over the colored areas with a slightly different watercolor hue. The inner...
View ArticleF&W : "Live to Dream"
Back in July, Jen Minnis posted (in the AlteredBooks Yahoo group) a link to her "Faceless" spread with a description of how she'd applied gesso over an outlined magazine image to achieve the...
View ArticleF&W : Painted Tissue
This was a simple little idea that could have big possibilities. I started by taping some wax paper to my drawing board, then taping a sheet of white tissue paper over that. (The wax paper acts as a...
View ArticleF&W : National Watermelon Day
In early September, I'd been buying an assortment of magazines for use in my just-begun gluebook, and in one of the kid's magazines, I found a text blurb saying "August 3 is National Watermelon Day."...
View ArticleF&W : "Trust"
I began this spread by looking through my rip file, a collection of images gleaned from magazines and books. Most of the stuff in my rip file was gathered about fifteen years ago. I keep promising...
View ArticleF&W: "Arts Project"
This was a speedy collage, completed in a single afternoon. The spread already had a picture on the recto side, which I'd loosely brushed over with gesso. The entire spread was scrubbed with a burnt...
View ArticleF&W : Becoming "Special"
When we last left off with this tale, this "Very Special" spread had been pasted and glazed and was having a severe identity crisis. Soon after, some more stuff was done to the poor thing. Nothing all...
View ArticleF&W : Watercolor Crayon
When I got my first set of watercolor crayons (Lyra Aquacolor), I decorated quite a few spreads in the F&Ws as I experimented with the possibilities of the medium.This one shows how delicate the...
View ArticleF&W : Finish Line
Just when I decided to join in with Artwords group which offers a topic each week to illustrate or creatively build upon, they came up with this one: Graffiti. Hm, well, I don't do graffiti in the...
View ArticleF&W : Sponge-wipe background
Here's a quick and cool background technique. This spread was painted with acrylic paints in yellow, red-orange and reddish brown, in that order. For each color, while the dollop of paint from the tube...
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