Altered Booking can
be done at a dining table, the kitchen counter, a desk top, almost anywhere. I’m
very lucky to have two wonderful studio spaces in my home.
The first is a 2nd
story sunroom overlooking the Pacific. My ever-growing collection of
ephemera- holding cigar boxesclimbs
up one wall. I keep two rolling files and a lateral file for pictures, maps, collage
pieces, etc. I use the sunroom studio as a think tank and organizational center
for all the "stuff". As this has expanded i have taken to using
the dining room table (just steps away) to do most of the hands-on art creating.
My second studio
space is one side of our two car garage. Here you’ll find my collection of old
books -- library discards, thrift store finds, estate auction lots, Some are to
be used as the "substrata" (or canvas) that will be altered. Others
are used for their pictures, illustrations, word snippets, and sometimes their
old age-spotted end sheets. Encaustic waxing, heavy gluing, book cover
preparation and other messy, smelly jobs are done on my rolling workbench.
On the desk sits an old manual typewriter--used to add that authentic touch to
the vintage page--and a color copier with a ready supply of parchment paper and
transfer sheets. A 1940's photo-slide tray case holds a collection of tiles
gathered from our travels to France, Scotland and Mexico.
And then there’s
the BIG studio -- wherever I go I always have my current journal, my bag of
pens, a couple of drawing pencils, and a glue stick. I love gathering items and
making collage as I go, sketching my surroundings, writing down my impressions
of the day. My journal holds my life of the moment, not a day goes by without
adding something to it. So as I go through my day everywhere I am is an
extension of my studio.
The first is a 2nd
story sunroom overlooking the Pacific. My ever-growing collection of
ephemera- holding cigar boxes climbs
up one wall. I keep two rolling files and a lateral file for pictures, maps, collage
pieces, etc. I use the sunroom studio as a think tank and organizational center
for all the "stuff". As this has expanded i have taken to using
the dining room table (just steps away) to do most of the hands-on art creating.
My second studio
space is one side of our two car garage. Here you’ll find my collection of old
books -- library discards, thrift store finds, estate auction lots, Some are to
be used as the "substrata" (or canvas) that will be altered. Others
are used for their pictures, illustrations, word snippets, and sometimes their
old age-spotted end sheets. Encaustic waxing, heavy gluing, book cover
preparation and other messy, smelly jobs are done on my rolling workbench.
On the desk sits an old manual typewriter--used to add that authentic touch to
the vintage page--and a color copier with a ready supply of parchment paper and
transfer sheets. A 1940's photo-slide tray case holds a collection of tiles
gathered from our travels to France, Scotland and Mexico.
And then there’s
the BIG studio -- wherever I go I always have my current journal, my bag of
pens, a couple of drawing pencils, and a glue stick. I love gathering items and
making collage as I go, sketching my surroundings, writing down my impressions
of the day. My journal holds my life of the moment, not a day goes by without
adding something to it. So as I go through my day everywhere I am is an
extension of my studio.