The assignment for this workshop was to come prepared with black and white and some color prints of the medieval period including castles, turrets, ancient calligraphy, illumination, architecture, gothic windows & doors, medieval gardens....you get it. We also brought our favorite acrylic paint, gesso and a variety of brushes as well as any favorite things we would want to incorporate into this project. With these, we created a collage that we then turned into a medieval manuscript book. This is the mostly finished collage, since taking these pictures I did more work on it to embed the pictures into the background better and add glimmer mist and gold highlights:
Lynne encouraged us to add lots of texture using corrugated cardboard, cheese cloth, crumpled tissue paper, stenciling, etc. to create a background. From there, we slit and folded our collage to create a book. Here it is closed:
Below is a couple of views of the interior pages:
It was a truly inspiring day and I encourage all who have an opportunity to take a workshop with Lynne to not pass up the opportunity, you will not be disappointed! This workshop was filled with so many amazing and talented women. I was so intent on working on my project that I missed the opportunity to take pictures of the workshop itself. Susan Sager Brown has a wonderful blog entry about Lynne's workshop and I encourage you to visit her blog to read further about it. I have linked her blog entry - just click on her name! Susan has pictures of the work she did on her amazing piece and while you are there, check out her artwork!
4 comments:
Wow!!your pages turned out so beautifully!! Love your color combos and images. Thanks for the link and your kind words. Hopefully we'll meet again in Connecticut!!xoSusan
Mary, what a great post! Such a beautiful piece you created and your day was a comeplete success! I can see why this was a wonderful experience and an added bonus is that you came home with this fantastic Medieval book!!!!!!! Awesome Mary!!!!!!!!!
Hugs,Patti
Hey MAry!! So glad to finally get a chance to read abotu your PErella Experience!! I am still so excited for you and I love your piece!! Must see it in person sometime!! We had a hard drive catastrophic failure so I ahve lost tons of stuff and I am trying to recreate it now!! What a hideous drag!! SO to reward my self I am doing a bit of blog hopping to take breaks!! Off to visit Susan's blog now!!
Big Hugs!!
Elizabeth
Exciting post Mary! LOVE how your project turned out! Someday hope to take a class with Lynne...doesn't get much better than that...
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