Wandering

Onward with the random projects. It's nice I can always surprise myself because I never know what I'm going to feel like doing that day. Last week I was in a bookish mood, so I created another 'art' book. As I created each collage-ish page on 8"x8" mat board I had no idea what my theme would be but I noticed I was mainly sticking to earthy and slightly antiqued colours, probably because I'd purchased a spray bottle of walnut ink and wanted to see what it would do. Hint: it makes things look old. Instant antiquing. After assembling the pages in a rather different way with stained linen strips (looking so antiqued they began to resemble bandages left over from the Civil War) and some old chopsticks from the back of our silverware drawer, I picked a suitably vague title, Wandering, which could either indicate a sense of travel or just the state of my thoughts. Decide for yourselves: