Vintage Cards

A little while ago after coming back from France I showed some of the vintage letters and post-cards I bought at a flea market, and mentioned that I would show some of the cards I would make.  Well, I've been busy chopping them up (seems a shame, although what else to do with them?) and they are now recycled into cards.  Here's a sample - the two bottom left -



These letters and postcards from France were dated 1927, 1957 etc.



As you'll see, I also made some cards out of a recycled Daily Mail Nipper Annual, 1939, mostly black and white, a few colour.  There was very little colour used in those days for Annuals, so the coloured pages are a little rarer.  I bought the 1939 Annual from a shop selling bric-a-brac in Exeter back when we went there for the day whilst staying in Lyme Regis.  You can tell what I spend all my time doing when I'm on holiday!

Royal Academy Summer Show

Visited the RA last week and lo and behold there was some book art.  Alexander Korzer-Robinson had a cut encyclopaedia and John Dilnot, from Brighton, had a small book of worms.  There were some other book works, and lots of other stuff.  It's sometimes hard to see how some work was chosen for the exhibition - all down to the judging panel though.

Part 2 of my Boxed surrealism book

In amongst my older posts you may have seen a book I put together which was a boxed book.  On the pages were some drawings which were collated after a group of us, about 9 of us in all, played the Surrealist game 'Exquisite Corpses".  Its where you draw a head of some sort (it doesn't literally have to be a head - that's where the surrealist element comes in - it could be a cake, a plant, whatever), leaving the neck sticking down and you fold over the paper so the next person that gets your paper can't see what you've drawn, only the 'neck'.  This continues until a whole 'body' has been constructed, the more curious the better.

Here's a pic to remind you of what was on the blog before -

Go back if you would like to be reminded of what I said and to get some individual pages shown.

Anyway, just recently, the same 9 people sat down for a meal together and we added an illustrated tablecloth to this book project.  The tablecloth drawing is quite a popular game in the art world, and it seems to fit well with this book of illustrations because it's the work of the same artists.  They are not all artists, just people having some fun.  And who couldn't resist drawing all over my tablecloth.  Here's some pics - don't miss the huge red wine stain that happened in the middle of the meal -  See further down for some close-ups .....

and here are some close-ups -

A new book

When we were in Lyme recently I found this book in a second-hand bookshop.  It's dated from the 1800s, as shown on the inside.  It's one I'm going to use, especially as I have some 'botanical' watercolours I made of seaweed and some beach stones and lots of small pieces of driftwood.  Once I get started I'll decide how I can include these things with the book, and perhaps make a box to hold it all.   Some of these pictures are a bit blurry, but you can get the idea .....

A paper piece from Italy

Saw this in a shop at the design museum, couldn't resist -

Collage

Some recent Collage.  The one at the foot of this section is mostly made from the blue insides of envelopes -