I've been working with art and
words in my life over the last few years - and have found that there's not that
many artists who do this.
A lot of them make sculptures out of the books they use. I do as well; and use very old books that are falling apart to do this (so don't worry, I'm not using anything from my collection or anything new).
However, I do book art where I write on the canvas book titles, author names, or song-writers names and they are turned into the shape of waves, leaves or trees. It's difficult to do and I find that I have to have a certain number of names, books or songwriters. It's a difficult thing to do and yet it's something I have the patience for because I have to write out the words in pencil first then paint over them the best way I can... in a contrasting colour.
Yes, I've almost sent myself blind doing this, so
my optometrist has been a great help to me by making me glasses to work
up-close and personal with my art.
I not only work with paintbrush and paint, but I also work with putting bookmarks into collages. I have a massive one about Bookcrossing called 'Spread the Word' which I still have sitting behind my front door because there's nowhere to hang it. And there's other works hanging around my library which is all book-related. I've even made a plaster cast torso which is all about books, has quotes on it and I built a book from plaster on it - with the pages all curled up as though they were caught on a breeze - then painted them gold.
Do you know anyone who's done book art which doesn't involve the sculpture of books themselves? I find that my work takes a lot of time to do; so I don't have that much work to do a proper exhibition as yet, but it does show my passion for the written word in so many ways. Until my next post, happy reading.
UPDATE:
I've been asked in the comments about photos of my work. This is something I forgot to upload - sorry about that guys, I was very tired and it was late. So here's the few I've done so far.
This sounds interesting. Do you have photos?
ReplyDeleteAfter many tries to get it right, I've been able to put up photos into the post by editing it.
DeleteBlogger doesn't like me going back in to work on it again... silly really. I had to reformat the whole blog post in another program then bring it back. But I hope you enjoy the photos. :D