Showing posts with label olley's book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olley's book. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011
Back to Reality
It's wonderful and exciting and fun to travel........ but also fantastic to be home again and back into things, like sleeping in my own bed, snuggling up to my husband, eating Aussie fare, giving my dog a pat and getting back into my studio and the collaboration! What have you each been up to over the past few weeks? Have you figured out the theme of the book sent to you for round one? Or are you scratching your head with bewilderment! because I knew I'd be away for most of this month I had to move fairly quickly with Olley's book, I wonder if I have 'read' it correctly? It was such fun interpreting Olley's theme! I could see at least two possible stories and also maybe a third......there was no time to dilly dally, so after considering my options I pulled out a selection of my favourite art materials and simply let my intuition and understanding of the theme guide me in piecing together my page. I know we can share some snippets of the books on this blog, so thought it would be okay to share with you an image of the postage box that Olley's book pages will be travelling around in. Olley has requested for each of us to decorate her postage box with Chinese ephemera.....what a brilliant idea! Oh Oh.....I'm a bit rusty on the uploading of images so you will notice that the image of Olley's box and my clue snippet image are above this new post...sorry!!!! (Maybe I can blame it on jet lag!!)
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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!
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!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
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
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
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