The Little Asian Girl and a return to the Art and Book Fair

I'm once again joining Gill's Elegance and/or Grunge at Art Journal Journey.

Today we are headed to Asia in my 7 Continents altered book.  Not my usual 7 Continents style, but I feel it fits Gill's challenge.

I took this from the Asian book I purchased recently at the Art and Book Fair.  Although it is in black and white, I felt it was elegant.

The girl, which is part of a tag, I'm not so sure about.  I think she may be either elegant or grunge.

Edit: at Valerie's request, I am adding this page to Tag Tuesday, since it contains this tag.

But I found this image painting quite spooky (except for the deer in the lower right).  I think it definitely qualifies as grunge.

And because the page needed journaling, here is my feeble attempt to recreate one of the words or letters I found on the tag.  Please don't ask what it is or means.  Your guess is probably better than mine!

Materials include my used file folder as a substrate, over which I added some of my shimmering mists, two black and white images from an Asian book, one tag, one recycled card, a Micron ink pen, and red pigment ink applied with a Q-tip to the edges of the papers.

I thought you might like to return to the Art and Book Fair and see the remainder of the booths.  I'll keep my comments to a minimum again, so you can peruse the art at your own speed.

I took this photo because I saw the cats.  I always LOVE to see cats and show them to Bleubeard.  Squiggles doesn't seem to care about art unless I'm making it.  I didn't see the very prominent sign that stated not to photograph the paintings

until the owner came running over to stop me from doing so.  Note that she was at the back of the booth when I took the photo above this one, but made a beeline to me as I was shooting this.  I'm surprised she didn't try to take my camera away.  She gave me a tongue lashing, though.  I wanted to say that could be why there was NO ONE stopping at her booth.  Everyone else had been SO kind, some even pointing out things they thought I might like to take photos of.

I loved how this artist had set up and was ready to paint if there was a lull.

She was busy with customers while I was passing, though.

I never got close enough to take a good photo of the "Keeper of the Plains," though.  The sunset photo on the left shows it on its pedestal on the river.

It was starting to get incredibly hot and the crowds were starting to get larger than I cared to handle.

That's when I knew it was time to head for the building and peruse the books.

You can see a few of the booths set up in the parking lot as I turned back to take this final shot of the day.

Thank you for joining me for this book and art fair.  I am always grateful for your comments.  And of course, it's time to join Gill at Art Journal Journey and Valerie and Chrissie at Tag Tuesday.