i also stamped some textile leaves (they only have little contrast to the brown background fabric, but i didn´t have others…) – 6 pieces, means one per spread (the book will have 12 pages plus covers). the stamp i used is the one i also used for stamping the front and back cover sheets. i carved this eraser stamp some years ago.
before ironing the batting to the back of the fabric i stamped it with a related motif and also used this stamp for the colored picture-frame on the respective page.
here only stamping is done. the photo will be in the center of the colored cottonsheet, this will be the focus of the page. then text-ribbons will be added.
the background fabric will be all the same throughout the book and the pics i printed are brown, too – so i thought i might add some color by the text-ribbons and by giving the pics a background frame.
after i had printed the text onto t-shirt-transferpaper, i could measure the length of ribbons i needed. plus i cut out some white cotton a bit larger than the pics.
i colored this with 3 dye-inks: yellow/butterscotch for representing the sun, stars and yellowing nature in fall; green/lettuce for the plants; and blue/denim for sky, water, blueberries…
starting with preparations for NBC i stumbled across some figures i have to order…LOL! this will gonna be a *huuuge* project i suppose;) so it will run “in the background”, working on it from time to time, and meanwhile i will make some other things parallel.
one book i started yesterday (collecting things i have therefore in a box:) is a native-american themed one: i wanna concentrate on excerpts of the speech of chief seattle in 1854, which is such a beautiful statement on the environment. there are some variations on this speech to be found in the web, i decided to take the text which is used in the film “home” (1972).
the perfect pictures that match the theme should be the ones from edward s. curtis. i always loved these pics (may they be a idealization or not…). they are all sepia-toned and i have some excess fabrics in brown from sewing my curtains last year, so these should go fine together.
on the title page i will use a dreamcatcher (thanks god i´m buying things whenever i can get them:)
might use some of the fabric leaves (fall-tones) i have, maybe stamped with related images.
and i have quite some beads for embellishments.
i think i will add the text in german, so i can take this for visual aids in my school lessons (i do educate religious affairs, and this wonderfully fits the theme of creation).
so, off to concentrate on the text and divide it into parts for the pages…
though i really should do other things, i can´t get a new project out of my mind: i´m planning to make another fabric book, based on tim burton´s nightmare before christmas. i have some plastic figures of the characters, some buttons, 2 cool nbc-fonts and xmas-symbols fonts for writing upon ribbons… a lot of halloween-related stuff (skeleton beads, skull keychains… pumpkin-, ghost- and other related eyelets and brads… ribbons…), quite some x-mas and winter stuff as candy-canes, snowflakes… related fabrics with pumpkins, bats, snowflakes… not to talk about the hundreds of halloween- and xmas-themed stamps i have!!
maybe i could also include the nbc-card-game i have…
the hardest decision on this projects is concerning the size: should i keep it “small” (few sides only)? i think i have a tendency towards “big”, maybe even in more volumes…
god, where will this lead me to?
this will take time forever!!!
i so love this subject and can hardly limit myself LOL!
for the first i´ve started researches on the poem, the lyrics, and i found some cool pics which have to be worked on in some picture programmes.
this totally blocks my head and i can hardly do other things…
actually, this is my favorite page and the one i started when i planned the book. but of course it had to become the last one…
this is the end…
not for me, hopefully;) — now i will let the pages sit for a while and look around for further embellishments… they can only be added before i will sew the fronts and backs together…
hope you enjoyed the journey through the past with me…
saturnine good look
magnetic stage presence
charismatic
the wild shaman of rock
doesn´t he look divine?! (and he always will… as he died 1971 at the age of 27 in paris, where his grave still is a magnet for fans)
songs of evocative lyricism and atmosphere…
as said, i hadn´t many pics…
so i did a little computerwork and tripled this one, giving it different background colors and doing a little overlaying…
originally i wanted to make a whole book about the doors – but had to notice i couldn´t get enough pics therefore. so i concentrated on the best i had and made 5 pages…