Tamara's Whisper

Its Febuary's end but my pages are in the mail making their way to Tracey. I'm uncertain of how I feel about my page. There are elements that speak to me but its a representation of the theme using images I don't usually have an affinity for. The process was very organic. I allowed the page to unfold itself without trying to sway it more to my ingrained likes. A big part of my stuggle has been the departure from my comfort zone with colour choice. It's more muted than I normally lean towards but once again it works for the purpose of the imagery. Maybe in time it will grow on me. Looking forward to your response to it Tracey. I wonder what it will say to your minds eye.

Cheers Tamara

An Exciting Week Coming Up!!

By now you will all be either putting the finishing touches to your 'whispers' books, or packaging them up nice and securely, (and maybe for some, decoratively!)
Tuesday is the 1st of March and the official starting date for Round One! So I imagine by the end of this week at the very latest you will each have a new book in your hands.......
What are you going to make of the themes??? What story will you visually tell??? How will you document the previous artists work in the form of a clue, (I have heard the clues being referred to in a few ways: fragment, square, piece, sheet....any other descriptors?????) Also what will you document down about the page you see????

As you know from my previous post, I asked Olley if she would mind sending he book to me a little early if possible....well she did! Olley delivered it to the school I work at, unfortunately it was on a Friday so I didn't actually get it until Monday as I don't work Fridays, (Fridays are my dedicated studio days!)....I was very busy on Monday, so didn't even try to take a peek until after I had arrived home and was able to give it my full attention and do the 'opening' justice.......I had two ideas about Olley's theme immediately...then a third one occurred to me a few days later....so, what did I do???? Well, I.............sorry, you will have to wait and see!!!
What I can tell you is that I have had an absolutely lovely day today working on my page of Olley's book, (I know I'm rather early but I really like to be organised..... and I won't have heaps of time when I get back from the US on the LAST Sunday of the month), so, back to the book.....I was up to my armpits in ink, shellac, gesso and some delightful collage pieces....I have 90 per cent completed what I need to do......I'll put the finishing touches on it when I return......I wonder if I have interpretted Olleys book correctly????

While I'm away I'll be checking into the blog from time to time, I'm very keen to see what's happening with all of you back here in Oz as well as to keep up to date with the collaboration!
I will also hopefully, put a couple of posts up about my trip.

Take care and have fun creating your pages..........your whispering coordinator!

Tracey's Book

My book is all wrapped up, ready to send to JacQ later today! Thought I'd share a shot of the work bench once I'd taken away the pages...Seems I have a big mess to clean up! This is really only one little part of the mess I've made...there is paper and paint and tape and gesso and newspaper everywhere.

I used discarded manilla folders, cut in half, papered with newsprint and covered in a light smear of gesso for the pages. There might have been a bit of walnut ink invloved, along with paint, stencils, packing tape transfers and some random found objects.

Can't wait to see what little snippets everyone has to share here as we get started. Next job is to write my spiel for the artist profile page here - so far there are profiles from Peta, Sarah and Tamara. I'll enjoy reading the rest as they come in!

Happy whispering!

I'm getting excited!!

Not long now folks.......till we begin this collaboration....only ten more days to the beginning of March, AND, Olley's book awaits me at TCC, (where I work)...I'll have it in my hot little hands on MONDAY!!!
Olley has been super fast at completing her book and has very kindly sent it to me early! The main reason for this is that it's also not long until I jet off to the USA, March 4th to be exact! I'm off to visit one of my daughters and my 6 month old grand daughter, Abby, who is very cute when I see her on Skype! An especially nice thing about this trip is that I will be spending 6 days in New York with JacQ!! We've often talked about being in NY together and now we will actually do it. Helen and Kristin have provided us with some great information, like places to see, things to do as well as where to eat and shop! Thanks so much guys!
My book is packaged up and ready to post, hopefully I will send it off on Monday, so watch out for it in your letterbox Sarah!
I trust you are all on track for posting your books off so they will arrive at their destinations by the beginning of March ?
Looking forward to following what you're each doing via this blog.
love,
Peta

Am I There Yet

I am a Virgin blogger so I'm not sure I'm doing the right thing?! I'll keep this short in case it's wrong. Finally worked out my gmail account so fingers crossed I'll remember my password and make it back here. Good to see/hear from you all, love kristin.

Olley's update

Hello my friends, I am excited to be back & sharing a blog or two. I gave a bookbinding workshop today & Tracey was one of my keen students. We talked about whispers & where we were up to - I have nearly finished my page - Tracey hasn't started. But hey who's keeping track?!? I was keen to get started way back in December but I was at work at the time & the only thing I could use out of my little studio there was some cereal boxes I had collected for book making. So I can tell you only that my pages are square, made out of cereal boxes, I couldn't decide between 2 themes so I have combined them, I have used ALL my favourite colours & I had a whole lot of fun doing it. I have a tinsy little bit left to complete then it will be all ready to send at the end of the month. I am really looking forward to this collaboration - I hope you all have as much fun as I did in creating my first page. Next blog I will post a photo of my new hairdo - there is not much hair left really - it's hot & hair is extremely over rated anyway! I start a new job on Tuesday - admin traineeship at the power station. Woohoo - can't wait. Take care, Happy Creating, Love Olley.

Hi from Jen

thanks Tracey for initiating this blog for our collective whisperings. As luck would have it my printer just died and I'm not ready yet... so there wasn't a lot of whispering happening here. No worries... bring on March and our first double page spread! I'm so excited. Here's a clue... its my desk top where I WAS working

Hi to all the whisperers out there! Especially to Tracey who has set this blog up....it looks wonderful and sounds as intriguing as it actually is! I've had conversations with a few of you in the past month or two, its very interesting and somewhat frustrating not being able to talk about our themes....however it's also rather exciting trying to imagine what you have all come up with. I am finding it difficult to wait until the beginning of March for a book to arrive! But then the fun will start! I'm sure our interpretations will be interesting as well as amazing!

Roll on March!!

Sarah

Hello Tracey,
Ok here goes , I have manage to get this far and we will see how we go. I shall have to study this & work out how add pis etc. Cheers,
Sarah

from JacQ

Hi JacQ here
I have found my way in to the blog! Its a first for me, not only to be first ( apart from Tracey) but the first blog I have joined ! I am really looking forward to the new journey with 'Whispers'
Best
JacQ

New Post

Hello...If you've turned up here, we welcome you! Right now, the blog is in the process of being set up, so not much here just yet...but please call back again soon, as there will be much to see and lots of secret squirrel business to add some intrigue to your blog browsing!

See you soon!