HOUSES, BIKES AND SUN IN CALIFORNIA

I've been going through my collaged books and journals.

Here's 2 pages from 

BIKING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 

To see all the pages and how I created this book, scroll through these posts of the process. 

Click on my web page to see the full accordion book and each page.

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.

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

BIKING IN CALIFORNIA

Continued book inspired by trip to Cali. Today process showed me:

• Story is gelling-biking from neighborhood over hills.

• Figured out 1st & last pages-ties story together.

• 12 pages too long-8 better.

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.