Ruth L
Artist, graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, collector, dreamer, explorer.
Even birds are chained | lerusho. Today I have an altered book page for you. On it a quote: “no one is free, even birds are chained to the sky” Bob Dylan. As I said it is in my altered book, so sometimes I need to remove pages to be able to work in it. To prevent my book from falling apart I stick a thicker wash tape on the inner spine, usually the one that comes first in my hand, I also seal it with a layer of gesso, so it won’t suck too much.
I made the sides of my spread smaller, also wanted to get a torn edge effect. I continued to throw on it some scrap collage, scraps from the left overs on my desk and a few pieces of canvas as I love the texture the canvas gives to my spreads. Then I applied a layer of texture paste, into my paste I stamped with a fence texture stamp. I used Tattered Angels Glimmer mists to colour my spread (trunk bay and dragonfly and fully purple). o that was my fringe coloured, trimmed and ironed. The bigger petal is the fringe gathered original size, the smaller petal is app. half the size.