Red Light Dandy

Red Light Dandy

For quite a few months I have been trying to take a photo of the store front of an establishment in Seattle's University District.  Either I did not have my camera or the photo did not turn out like I wanted.  Luckily, the store does not change its windows frequently.  I finally got the photo and decided I wanted to do a gum Arabic transfer of the photo into my new journal.  The transfer process failed but I had gum Arabic and printer's ink all over the photo.  After wiping it many times with a baby wipe I got it to a place that I was pleased. 

We love to watch Project Runway on television and the seed was planted to do a fashion piece for my new crown binding journal.  I recently was in Minnesota visiting my great art friend, Terry Garrett, ( http://whisperwoodartworks.blogspot.com/ ) and with his generous gift of many ephemera pieces the Red Light Dandy was developed to what you see.

Buried Treasure

Each year artist and blogger Seth Apter ( http://thealteredpage.blogspot.com/ ) encourages bloggers to repost artists' "treasure" pieces on their blogs.  Seth publishes a list of blogs that are participating to gain more blog exposure.  Here are some of my recent favorite "treasures."

Flight to Paris

 

Barn #7

 

Beloved Boeing

 

Fish Salesman

 

Crazy Guys

 

 

 

Sisters - Red Barn # 9

The total spread for Sisters - Red Barn # 9  is complete.



Sisters - Red Barn # 9

The addition of the left hand side of the spread includes the letters L and E and the number 3. The L stands for Lottie and the E, Elaine.  The sisters are twins and were once triplets, but that is another story.  The time frame for this spread is 1926.




Sisters - Red Barn # 9

Near the end of last week, Ingrid, my friend in Sweden mailed me the first of her signature of the barn journal collaboration.  I was in awe of her work and only minutes passed before I had to start working on my first of four entries into her signature.  I have until October to finish four for Ingrid and four for my second signature in our journal collaboration.

Sisters - Red Barn # 9 evolved over two days and is the right side of a two page spread.  I have not completed the left side yet.  This particular red barn was photographed on a barn scouting safari and is located near Silvana, Washington.  The photo of the two women came from a antique store in Snohomish, Washington that I found on a day's excursion recently.  The dragonflies flew in from my friend, Irene, in a surprise piece of mail art which included dragonfly ephemera.

Street Art

Street Art

Today I took several art journalers into Seattle to journal at a coffee house and to walk the streets looking for ephemera and taking photos.  This is the piece that I completed from this adventure.  It was a great time as it was a totally new experience for everyone and anytime you can add food to the mix then it must be a good time.