CHAPTER 10 - ZIG ZAG BOOK

What an interesting project. I was eager to get started but the only paper I had in A3 size was 300 gsm! So I obviously didn't doubled it over as I could never have made the folds the other way. I cut it in half and ended up with 16 pages.

10.1 As many of my friends know, I love fuchsia, so when I found this "I think I love you" in a magazine in the right colours, it had to be the cover page. It is shown together with the back page which has a picture of one of my favourite Lea Stein brooches.

Out of interest I googled FUCHSIA and came up with some interesting information, a little of which is on the next two pages. This is again mostly magazine paper, plus a fabric heart made of cut pieces of chiffon, and the edges coloured with crayon.

Life's little essentials... no I don't wear these sort of things very much though I have a lovely pair of sandals in this colour and a bag as well. The tree broach was made by my lovely daughter in law.

Sewing machine with hares. No I don't own a machine this colour, but if someone gave me one I should love it. The hares are printed with a block I made from Fab foam (I found the hare in Salisbury museum, it was a very small bronze broach and I had to draw it, likewise some very odd little jumping figures in holes in the middle, shown later.) Backgrounds etc are all acrylic.

Mmmm, I do like dark chocolate, it makes me jump for joy too.

This reminds me of my youth, though I don't think my dress would have been quite so short.

Two pages with nice gooey paint, squashed together and then pulled apart. The cut out hearts have a loose middle fold over section which just seemed to 'need' to go down the middle.

Last two, though they are in fact either side of the above pages, but it seemed better to scan them this way. Bubble wrap pressed onto one page and then the resulting painty bubbles, pressed onto the other.

Two photos of the two different sides.

All together great fun. I didn't expect to get it finished this side of Easter, but I'm looking forward to Module 2 now.

CHAPTER 9 GIUSEPPE ARCIMBOLDO

What a strange idea.  Well obviously the various Hapsburg emperors liked his work. I wonder what his waterworks constructions were like as that was another part of his job. Still I like a man with a sense of humour.

9.1 Finding enough pictures of fruit and vegetables is quite tricky. But by playing around for quite a while I managed to come up with this.

HAPPY EASTER

chicken potato prints, I couldn't resist doing these a couple of weeks ago.

Chapter 8 Matisse & colour

8.1 I got a very good book out of the library on Matisse and it was a pleasure to read through it. I had forgotten many of pictures he painted at the beginning, were quite conventional, also that he, like many painters made sculptures.  The paper cutouts he did towards the end of his life have always fascinated me. This exercise on Matisse reminded me that when I was a child living in St Lucia, we had a reproduction of Matisse's Black Fern on the wall.  I always used to wonder why the lady had a table leg on her lap!

8.2 I took some liberties with my interpretation of a still life with fruit, insofar as the tablecloth was much more complex in the photo. I think the green stripy and spotty cushions are a bit too much for the fruit!

8.3 Like the one above, this was also painted in gouache but gave me far more trouble. I don't think I should have used the same fabric as background and foreground. I made a small foam block for the paisley pattern in the fabric. The colour of the small jug gave me lots of grief and got changed several times.

 8.4 + 8.5 I couldn't do the colour change on either Picasa or the basic photoshop programme on my Mac, so had to enlist the aid of daughter in law for these.