... oh.... wait....not YOU.... I like YOU.... I like you a LOT ! It's just these papers and this art, but.... I still meant to build it.
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This past weekend I spent some hours making new collage papers, yes, again. I love making them and every so often I desire to add some new ones to my stash. I made a lot of them too and a good number of them I actually liked, but when it was done, I sorted through them and separated out the ones I was keeping as they were and the ones I thought I would never use. I planned to go back to the bad ones and add something to them later to try to save them. That part would be fun too. I didn't get to that part though before the weekend was done, so I put them in my container of blot papers till such time as I was in the mood to address them.
UGH !!
Then yesterday while I was working, somehow it crossed my mind that I should make a piece of art using those yucky papers and see what would come out of them, so last night that is what I did.
This isn't a perfect animation because some of it is so dark you can't tell what has actually changed as it flips through, that and the program that lets me make the animations doesn't let me see them so close up before I click them. But anyway....
You can see how that all came out. It kind of had it's interesting points here and there and some spots on it had some depth too it where it appeared you were seeing deep into the art.
In general, I don't care much for dark art, color nor content. If you do, this may be the piece for you. LOL.... It still came out fairly balanced and was a good practice.
On another note, I took the afternoon off today to avoid answering phones on my job. I decided to go to the local Hospice store, where people donate stuff and they sell the donated items to make money for the local Hospice Home. I used to love to go there. It is a HUGE warehouse and they always had more than you could look at in one visit. I had not been there since before covid started, but somehow, I was expecting it to be the same. To my disappointment, it was not. They still had a lot of stuff, as stuff goes, but it was not nearly the volume it was before. The main reason I went was to look through their books and see if I could come up with an interesting old one or two that I could use to make fancy collage pages out of. I wasn't looking for a valuable book at all, just one that had the right kind of paper in it. They had their books very organized, which if I were looking for books to read, would have been wonderful, but I wasn't. The main thing I had hoped for was an old dictionary and/or that sort of thing, but they really didn't have any like I wanted. I did buy one book that was just a soft back novel that had the right sort of pages, so it wasn't a total loss, but not anything good like I had hoped. It wasn't just like that for the books though, it was like that through the whole place, fairly sparse in the good offerings.
While looking through, I found this book from about 1978. I thought it would be interesting to look through, not for collage papers, but just because it was Christmas and I usually love the fun photos from the Saturday evening post. It has the dust jacket too, which I took off for the photo. The book itself is in fairly good shape, with only the corner ding on the bottom right.
Inside of it was a note, "To: Logan and Matthew From: Grand and Mawmaw Christmas 2021" I pictured The "Grands" giving their beloved book that they bought new back in the day, to some of their Grand kids (or Great Grandkids) as a special present to remember them by. I'm supposing Logan and Matthew didn't like it as good as their Grandparents, because here only 3 years later, it has been donated for resale at the Hospice store.
That was the story I had in my head about it when I got home and looked through it a bit. A couple of hours ago though, a funny thought went through my mind, maybe it wasn't a long-held beloved book, maybe the Grands did their Christmas shopping at the Hospice store because they didn't have a lot of money and now it had come full circle. So many scenarios it could be.
Maybe I should save it till Christmas and gift it to someone else and write a note to them below the one that is already there. 😅 What do you think??
Alright, I'm done for this evening's drivel. I hope your week is going well.
