Welcome from the Whisperers

Welcome from the whisperers... The artists of the Whisper Collaboration invite you to share our journey. Twelve artists, each begining with a theme, will carry out a visual game of "Chinese Whispers". Our book pages will travel between us, each collaborator adding their own interpretation of the theme. The trick will be that only the originating artist will know what the theme is! It's up to the rest of us to decipher that theme only from the work of the previous artist and the set of 'page clues' that will grow as the collaboration progresses! Here on our blog, we will share images of the clues, and perhaps some other tantalising snippets of information...all adding to the intrigue. Join us, and see if you can guess each artists theme as the books progress!

Friday, December 23, 2011

A Whisper from Kristin's book


I love to work in layers and I love using phone book pages as the first layer, I paint over the pages with gesso, in the above whisper I have also used a light wash of blue ink. On top of this I have used oil of wintergreen to transfer a toner photocopy of an image I sketched while on a train travelling to New York, the final layer was text using a zig pen!
Kristin has once again provided us with an interesting format for her book, I just hope I got close to the theme that Kristin had in mind, if not hopefully you like it anyway Kristin......I had a lot of fun putting it together!
Peta
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2 comments:

jenconde said...

This looks gorgeous Peta. Whats a zig pen?

Peta said...

"Zig"is the the brand name for a double nibbed felt tipped pen, usually one nib is fine at the other end of the pen there is either a chiselled nib, the sort used to write calligraphically, or a thicker round nib. The Zig pens come in a variety of colours, I purchased mine from a scapbook shop, I think that maybe Spotlight also sells them.