Handshakes

It's been quite some time since I played in my Hands AB. What I'm working on now will end up being a six "page" spread. I found I have so many handshake images, I decided to turn them into one continuous statement. When I finish the series of handshakes, I will also take a photo so you can see the entire spread.

This is the first image that I placed over a background of my hand painted deli paper. Not sure you can tell from the scan (which will enlarge quite nicely, I think), but this is on the right side of the page.

I added an extension, which tucks back into the book so I could add the second image. These images are from various magazines and they are slightly smaller than the height of the book, but wider than the width. I struggled with having the images cut off at the top of the spread before the top of the book, but not sure how to remedy it. One of the hazards of using magazine images, I guess. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm totally open to correcting these pages.

Today I will be out and about with my art friend and shopaholic Kathy. We will be taking Wendy (for those of you new to my blog, Wendy is a stuffed doll) with us because Kathy's car cools down quickly after our hot shopping stops. I'll take pictures and share them on Monday. Have a great weekend everyone.

While doing an internet search looking for mixed media and fabric blogs, I ran across Beate's Fabric Art. Beate lives in Germany. Imagine my surprise, after perusing several pages of lovely collages, jean purses, and superb photography, I saw Cute Potato. If that sounds familiar to you, it's because Cute Potato is a stuffed darling doll that is currently visiting one of the blogs in the UK I regularly read: Chris at Bling-Kin-Eck. It really is a small community. So don't forget to check out Beate's Fabric Art today. I promise, there is some serious eye candy to be seen there.