A 36 Year Old Photo

Back in 1990,  when I was a bit younger than I am now,  a dear friend and I went on a trip to Pigeon Forge Tennessee.  The town was packed. This wasn't a surprise to us and we were all there for the Opening of Dollywood's 4th year.  This year they were adding a carousel. In grand fashion, there was a parade through the main street of the town.  The Grand Marshall was riding on a Lion from the carousel. 

I had my camera with a zoom lens and was chasing along taking photos.  Here is a photo that I took that year with my good old Pentax film camera.  

Yes, of course the Grand Marshall for the parade was none other than Dolly Parton. 

As she was going by,  I yelled out "Hey, Dolly!  I never saw a fox riding on a lion before." 

She laughed delightedly and said "I never thought of it that way!"

Rest in Peace, dear lady.

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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.  

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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. 

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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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