Some me time :)

I'm on a little break from art shows and classes, for about two weeks, and I've decided that I want to use this time to concentrate on some of my own personal art.

One of my favorite classes, to teach, is altered books. What happens, when I teach a series, is I use a book for demonstrating techniques, etc. and I never really finish a whole book ya know?

So; I'm going to use this next two weeks to complete my altered book that I used for my recent workshop.

This is a picture of my cover. It's actually a magazine transfer that I demonstrated as part of the workshop. I fell in love with this ad in a magazine and I just knew it had to be my cover. I covered my book with canvas paper, gessoed then transfered the magazine image. I added some acrylic paints as well as walnut ink. The white calligraphy is part of a Japanese poem stamp that I recently ordered. The embellishment on upper-left side is an old rusted washer, of sorts, I found on a walk! :)

I've decided that this altered book is going to be my art journal. I haven't done much journaling and I am really looking forward to working in this. I will be uploading pictures of my journal pages, from time-to-time to share with you.

I so hope you are all having a good week. Tonight into tomorrow we're supposed to get another snow storm and promises to deliver a bunch of it. I will use this time to work in my altered book :)

Much love to all! Marilyn xxoo