YELLOW'S BACK ON THE TABLE

Need to finish up some lingering projects so I can get on with a new direction. So... sunny California's back on the table. Which to finish up first?

Add 2 more picture pages to collage book?

Collages on 3 brown bags?

or Going green in California? This one.

BACK TO THE BAGS

Thinking there's a bit much yellow on this page!

Worked in the studio yesterday morning.

Pulled out the gessoed paper bags I was playing with a few weeks ago.

Working on the 3rd collage/right side on the ledge. No plan besides play with the leftover scraps, color and design ideas from the Sunny California collages.

I'M TRUSTING THE PROCESS.

A BRIGHT ORANGE BUTTON?

Accordion fold book, inspired by sunny California, pretty much complete. Still needs a couple tweeks, like a sun on page 5 - a bright orange button?

STORY WRITES ITSELF

Continued working on the book inspired by trip to California.

Have been going back and forth on how many pages - 8 - 12 - 10 & today back to 8. Just could not get the last two pages to work story-wise. Whatever I came up with, seemed to be extraneous to the story that has been writing it self. Almost finished!

Still don't have a title. Think I'll ask my son for a suggestion, he's the Cali biker.

SUNNY CALI BOOK PROGRESS

Making progress on accordion book inspired by trip to sunny California.

Pg 1 - added trees, sun, sky, hill, bike, house

Pg 5 - added houses, palm tree

Pg 6 - added house

Pg 7 - added house

Pg 8 - added houses, bike, sun

Pg 9 - added sun

Moving along! Would love to finish this by Wednesday. Never can tell when more inspiration is heading my way. But wait...I have earlier Cali inspired work to finish up !

Work in progress top to bottom:

• full 10 pages

• closeup pages 1-4

• closeup pages 5-8

ANOTHER BICYCLE

Making progress on the accordion book inspired by my trip to California.

Designing 2 more sunny days.

More hills, houses & yes another bicycle!

More tomorrow.

STAMPING BIKES

Continued the accordion fold book inspired by my trip to sunny California.

Added a row of houses on 1st collage page, houses around the green belt on the 2nd, and a rubber stamped bike coming down the hill to a house on the 3rd.

How to rubber stamp:

I use black Fabric Screen Printing Ink by Speedball. With plastic spoon, spread a dab of ink into a 'pad' made with 2 pieces of white felt. Work ink into the pad.

Press stamp into inked pad. Stamp on scrap paper for practice and then on painted paper. When image is dry, heat set according to product instructions.

THE SUNS CAME OUT

I love making accordion fold books filled with collage. Started the latest one this morning, inspired by a recent trip to sunny California.

Machine stitched and glued 3 pages of sunny day collages. More to do on these. But it's a beginning. 12 pages in all.

I have a title in mind but holding all my ideas loosely. The process will lead the way.

PERKING

No time for hands on but I was perking today!

Sitting in the living room I wrote down some page ideas for the yellow Cali book. (Inspired by recent trip to California.)

Paper plates I used for paint palettes-great for cutting up & using in this collage project.

Thinking of using a rubber stamp alphabet to story-tell across the pages of the yellow accordion book.

Here's a closeup from the collage book titled 'Voyages' which I did a couple years ago. Used rubber stamped alphabet letters to tell story across the pages.

To see 'Voyages' click on the link.
http://www.margemalwitz.com/book_arts/voyages.php

COLOR ON HOLD

No time for creating. Project waiting.

SEW ON THE SUN

First California inspired collage almost finished. Need to sew on the sun, tack on the road, one more roof, maybe a pink bat star at waters edge.

Before stopping for the day I pulled out an accordion fold book I made a while ago. Thinking of using it in the California series, I recently painted one side yellow.

It's waiting for collages to span across the 12 pages. I'll work on this next. Maybe a series of sunny

California days in the neighborhood? The creative process continues...

Collages inspired by a recent trip to sunny California.

A Circuitous Route

"Focusing on a series of creations furthers the process of emanation. Images emerge from one another & build upon their predecessors."

Trust the Process by Shaun McNiff pg. 38

This creative process is taking quite a circuitous route! OK what are we looking at?

I love creating houses! This green house is one of the 5 random house images (refresh page to see all 5) on the home page of my website. http://www.margemalwitz.com/ Getting ready to make more houses.

Yesterday painted watercolor paper scraps & the second side of an unfinished accordion fold book with yellow acrylics. Getting ready for collage.

Started working on a series inspired by the drive we took home from the beach in CA -

beach, canyons & home.

The 3 yellow unfinished paintings will stay on the ledge for a while. I'll return to them after I learn some things in this emanation process.

To be continued.......

Fiddling & Diddling

Taped flattened bags back onto masonite supports.

I'm not a painter in the classic way - painting the picture/ design directly onto a surface, but I do love painting acrylics on high quality water color papers to cut up & use to create my pictures.

Decided to throw aside the direct painting approach I started the project with & go with collage. Did a little more work on the 3: glued a square of acrylic painted paper to no. 1.; added texture to no. 2 by printing painted carpet scraps; on no 3. I drew four squares with oil sticks and added texture around the border with carpet scrap printing.

After lunch I returned to play with shapes and colors AKA: fiddling & diddling*. Not there yet-still playing.

To be continued on Monday.

*One of the most essential skills of the artist can be likened to what carpenters call "fiddling & diddling," moving materials around until they find their place. From TRUST THE PROCESS An Artist's Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff pg. 37