Rain's Thursday Art Date: Hands

 

It's Thursday, so that means it's time to show my contribution to Rain's weekly Thursday Art Date.  This week the theme is Hands.  This has my name all over it, because I have created an entire altered book of Hands.  Here are a few of my favorites.  Unfortunately, I can't get them to enlarge.

These could be a mother's hand holding all these concepts. 

 

Of course, a mother might teach her children to achieve their vision. But words of encouragement aren't the only things found in this altered book. 

 There are whimsical pages,

 

holiday pages, 

 

 

and pages using vintage images and matching tissue. 

 

Hands from other cultures can be showcased, especially if they are made from polymer clay. 

 

I'm sure most people would be aware of X-rayed hands. The "real" X-rays are covering the book pages and also act as embellishments in the corners, while magazine images become the important focal elements on these two pages.

 Mail from other countries, all "hand stamped," is always welcome.

 

Sometimes we wear our hearts on our sleeves, and other times they become electric hand held (or sewn) hearts. 

 

Those who are following along in my AB class know I use gesso as a covering for AB pages as well as a glue. Here I did both! I was very lucky to find the right magazine image for the spread.

 For this two page spread, I began with some silk fabric I dyed. Next, I stamped several images, then layered hand dyed cheesecloth and hand dyed silk over the background fabric and sewed them together. After ironing the assembly into my AB, I added two tape transfers I made from magazine images.

 This is a zipper spread in my Hands AB. I had never put a zipper in a book before, so this was a real challenge. Closed, the page is made up of magazine images and various scrapbook papers.  

 

Open, the zipper reveals a hidden page. I used my handmade paper and wallpaper to hide the zipper elements and to fill in around the inside image. 

 

After I had been making this AB for awhile, I discovered sewing on paper. Both the front (or at least I'm calling this the front) 

 

and the back show how I incorporated the sewing, even though I don't have a machine that has feed dogs. 

 

I have several of these pages where I have Hands that are too small for a single page, but fit nicely in a collage format.

Finally, when I taught my Altered Book class (see my right sidebar), we created color wheels.  This is mine I created in my Hands altered book.

All art was created by me in my Hands altered book.  Bleubeard remembers those pre-Squiggles days fondly.   

Thank you beyond belief for stopping by.  I am truly grateful to you, my dear friends, followers, readers, and lurkers for visiting.  Please also join Bleubeard and me at Rain's Thursday Art Date.  This will be my final TAD for awhile.  I simply need to spend more time in my garden and yard and less time on the computer.  Thanks for understanding.  I'll return when it get too hot to be outside.