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aamcnamara) wrote2010-05-03 05:44 pm
aamcnamara) wrote2010-05-03 05:44 pm
Entry tags:
book art-in-progress
Because this is simpler than trying to upload photos twice and/or coding all of them into this post: here, have a link to the facebook album of pictures I just put up of my Dhalgren book art. Still severely in progress--flipping through to find the things I've done already, there were plenty of blank pages. But I wanted to get some sort of a record up of what I've done so far.
Still mostly using the markers, though I've added bits of an old photo (the Archives got it and didn't want it, so I got to take it, but it was falling apart a bit already) and started cutting pieces out of some pages, coloring some of them, sticking them back in other places... it's fun to see how many different things I can do with my limited media, but it'd be awesome if I could get some paints/pastels/whatever, like I was saying before.
(And I think putting bits of the photo in might work better if I had glue, not just masking tape...)
It's sort of ridiculously fun, especially the cutting-bits-out. I think I will have to do this again, maybe with a shorter book so I can do more contained things--Dhalgren is a sprawling book art project as much as it's a sprawling novel, which is awesome in that I can experiment, but it's hard to have anything cohesive going on.
Still mostly using the markers, though I've added bits of an old photo (the Archives got it and didn't want it, so I got to take it, but it was falling apart a bit already) and started cutting pieces out of some pages, coloring some of them, sticking them back in other places... it's fun to see how many different things I can do with my limited media, but it'd be awesome if I could get some paints/pastels/whatever, like I was saying before.
(And I think putting bits of the photo in might work better if I had glue, not just masking tape...)
It's sort of ridiculously fun, especially the cutting-bits-out. I think I will have to do this again, maybe with a shorter book so I can do more contained things--Dhalgren is a sprawling book art project as much as it's a sprawling novel, which is awesome in that I can experiment, but it's hard to have anything cohesive going on.