Altered Book Pages

I have been missing on here for a while. These days I have a lot less time and energy for creating because I am caring for my Mom.  She is in the later stages of dementia.  That's life and we carry on. 

However,  this week I took a little time to create a two page spread in one of my altered books and decided to share these pages with you.  The first page was created starting with a "roll-off" sheet.  Let me explain.  

When you are printing with a gel plate, you use a brayer to roll out the paint. Then to clean off the brayer, you "roll off" the remaining paint on scrap paper.  I am actually using an old manual from a leadership class as paper for this process.  So here is that page:

To fill in the areas around the roll off,  I used some of my painted papers and a couple of brush markers. 

For the facing page, I used the above as inspiration and created a similar image using mostly collage and some brush markers. For the collage, I used painted papers and a few pieces from an old magazine page.

They are different yet similar and I like them both.  

I am linking to Sunday in the Art Room.

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Little Me

I was going through some old photos on my phone and found an early photo of me. My grandfather had stood me on the hood of a car holding my Easter basket.  I appear to be roughly 4 years old, but I could be off a year either way. 

My at those fat little legs! They thinned out as I grew.  I was a skinny child in school. 

Anyway,  I decided to put this into the AI "remix" on my phone and make a watercolor

type image of it, just for fun. 

I have to laugh at the AI "goof" of putting flowers growing inside the car. 

I still think it came out as a lovely image. 

Linking to the Friday Face Off

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Is this one slightly creepy?

As I continue to work on my altered books, I find pages that you haven't seen yet.  This first one may be slightly creepy. I probably added to the creep factor by the words I added. (it as unintentional - I promise

New Beginnings

This is a photo transfer from a magazine - she is actually pretty.

The transfer is done with a gel printing process. I put this over another 

gel print that I had drawn lines on. I think the lines make it creepy. 

Here  is a happy alien,

This is a copy of a drawing that I colored, cut out and collaged over a 

painted background. 

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A face or two for Friday

Friday is the day Nicole hosts the Friday Face Off,  so I have a couple of "faces" to share today. 

I took some fabric that I bought in Mexico several years ago. It is a bordered fabric and I like the other part far more than the part with the white background.  Of course I kept the part with the white thinking "I may find a use for it someday."   One of the "themes" I have in my altered book is flowers and wildflowers.  So, I cut up the pieces to collage into my book. 

Here is the layout

Yes,  did buy this in Mexico, but the words are in French. 
I also added a few strips of washi tape with flowers. 

And I did a few quick pen drawings right on the page. 

There are faces there.  Do you see them?

If not, here are some close ups

Oh yes, I forgot to mention that a few places, I used an acrylic pen to 

make the design a bit stronger. 

But how about another face - this one is mine. 

I took a selfie and used AI on it to paint myself.

I think it is the most accurate AI changed photo of me that I have seen. NO, I don't have paint on my face, but I have always loved artists that weren't afraid to add color that "isn't really there" to a face or shadows or whatever.  

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I hope Nicole is feeling better and can host this week. She shared that she was having a bad Lupus flair in her last post. Wishing you well, Nicole. 

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