Second on the 2nd: A quotes swap

My mind has been on the theme of Time recently, and it caused me to review several works of art where time was considered.  I finally chose this post, and will show another Time related post next month.  This one won out, though, as I decided to show my tip-ins* for a Quotes swap I was in back in February, 2011.  I hope you aren't tired of seeing at least one side that deals with time.

*For those of you who don't know what a tip-in is, the short answer is a tip-in is a page or set of pages created outside a book, to be attached at a future time.  Tip-ins have become the cost effective way to share a collaborative book without incurring the cost or possible loss instead of mailing entire books among artists.  When you are in a tip-in swap, the host usually requests the theme.  You design your spread around that theme.

Now it's time for me to share this tip-in for a Quote themed swap.  The original date was a very cold and blustery February 24, 2011.  Here is the post mostly in its entirety.  If I edited or added something, I show it in green. 

Quotes: a swap

 My friend Halle requested this swap, so here is my tip-in. Since the swap is now completed, I can show my "Quote" entries.

This is the front.  You can tell because I've left space on the left side of the page to add it to the book.

Here is how I made these. I began by experimenting with the backgrounds. I first laid down oil pastels, but they didn't spread, because they had melted together in their box. I was going for the resist factor they would have provided. Next, I scribbled purple and orange crayons (Crayola) over the pages. Some scribbles show up better than others. Next, I laid down Titan Buff fluid acrylic paint. When the Titan Buff was dry, I added two colors of green and one blue fluid acrylic. Sorry, I don't remember the exact names, but they are all Golden brand. I made all the backgrounds on 110 lb. watercolor paper I cut to 8.5 X 11 inches.

One of my favorite quotes is by Einstein. I always laugh when I see it. I printed the quotes and colored them using pigment ink direct-to-paper  (Some of you may remember I used one of the reject quotes in a Time themed AJJ entry last month).  The "clock" was made using a rusty can lid that I "burned" in my chiminea this summer. I sealed each rusty piece with spray sealer. I added real clock hands and a single hour number, along with one button for each timepiece. The quote was then sewn to the paper. As a final step, after everything else was finished and sewn together, I added the clock assembly using E-6000.

Although I normally copy and paste the original image, I noticed my old e-mail address that doesn't work properly was on this side of the tip-in.  I removed it and, even though I hand wrote my blog address on the original tip-in, I also added my watermark to this page.

For the back, I stole . . . ripped off. . . borrowed a quote I found on Dianne's blog. I loved the quote and the inspiration it provided for this side of my tip-in. It is a quote by Danny Kaye and reads "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

I spent a lot of time trying to splatter gesso on the page, but the toothbrush I used didn't do the job I had hoped for. Since the gesso didn't provide the desired effect I wanted, and to try to live up to the quote, I dribbled some purple fluid acrylic down the top of each piece.

AH-HA!! Some of the oil pastel actually resisted, at least on the page above. Next I added circles of metallic copper and bronze fluid acrylic paint using jar lids, and allowed the pages to dry. Next, I sewed the saying, along with some yellow drywall tape to the page, as well as my information I hand wrote on labels I colored using Twinkling H20s. I blanked out my last name for this blog post. Finally, I folded the page and sewed on three sides. I didn't sew on the gutter edge in case some people wanted to bind them using a binding machine instead of tipping them into a book. I hope the recipients like them.

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I've shown mine, now it's time for you to dig deep and share your Second look today.  The rules are simple.  Please add the words Second on the 2nd somewhere in your post, and please link back here so others can learn about this fun once monthly event.   Feel free to invite your friends and followers to participate, too.  The more who join us, the more we will grow.

You may show ANY post you choose.  There are no stipulations as to theme, or what you may post.  This could be a favorite post or one you created before anyone knew your blog existed.  It makes no difference, but you must link below so we can visit, too.