cheerio Sketchbook 2012 Limited Edition.............

Here we are then, the end of my Sketchbook 2012 Limited Edition, which is now sat safely in the Brooklyn Library. I just wondered what it must have been like, being there at that Royal Function (described in the newspaper clipping in the first two pages of my 'Thread and Surface' sketchbook) stood quietly in the background, watching Queen Victoria pass by, seeing all the jewles and fabulous fabrics, the fashions and designs of the day, how would that be for first hand research? Just wishing I could have seen it for myself.....

just some doodling 

what to do with a stray eyelash

my interpretation of Queen Vic, sandpapered to ghost her up a little

done

to see all pages from my Sketchbook 2012 Limited Edition, click here

jewels, black velvet and lace from Sketchbook 2012 Limited Edition

Once again referring ing to the first pages of this sketchbook  I was drawn to velvet and jewels, adding a bit of lace and this time using fabric and paste stones. I could just imagine the glitter that was going on at that function and supposed that whether it was candlelight or gaslight then the reflections on the jewels must have been pretty impressive, especially with velvet as a backdrop.

I could just imaging the expanse of velvet puntuated by her jewels

the lace has quite a stiff feel to it, much like the occasion

two more pages from my Sketchbook 2012 Limited Edition

I have to say that these are not my favourite pages from this sketchbook but felt it would be wrong to leave them out. For this I was just thinking about the jewels that were at the function descibed in the newspaper cutting on the first two pages of my sketchbook, playing around with randomly crocheted wire and beads, using contrasting colours to see again how the change of colour could so affect an object or item.

acrylic paint, beads and copper wire

a bit of contained chaos

the reverse side in white with much more 'crazed' wire stitch

I quite like the messiness of this

a painted necklace for my Limited Edition Sketchbook 2012

for this page I referred back to the newspaper cutting on the first spread, imagining all of the jewels on that special occasion, the black velvet as a background to their glimmer.

my necklace's rubies were in fact daubs of nail varnish, the gold chain and velvet background being acrylic paint

and more from the sketchbook........Limited Edition 2012

with 'Threads and Surface' as as starting point, this sketchbook developed (almost by itself as they do) into a look at how the same piece of work can appear so differently when surrounded by or sat on another colour. I also wanted some of the pages to be as tactile as they were abstract, using raised threads and piereced pages to provide some varying surfaces. 'Liz' came into when I wanted to make another reference to how we adorn ourselves, whilst wondering whether it then follows that we  become walking works of art ourselves?

more of Liz below...........

reverse of the stitched black page in the previous post

reverse of the stitched block page below

double page of stitches on white, compare them to the black page on the posting below

This double page spread was first printed with an old wooden block and then one side was embroidered and the other pierced. I also wanted to do a colour match between the painted motifs and the embroidered ones

I enjoyed stitching this, one of my favourite pages in the book

I do love a close up

pierced

the back of the pierced page, I quite liked the feel of the raised surface on this one......

the double page spread with Liz Taylor has her own space, rightfully so for such an icon

I gave her a ruby this time as I felt she probably was a bit bored of having so many diamonds

she seemed quite pleased about it

more sketchbook pages.........

One of the things I was looking at with this sketchbook was how a change of colour could so totally change the look of a page and this is quite apparent with the free stitching on the gold and then overleaf on the black page further below.

free stitching versus straight (ish) lines

the loose tension in the black thread provided me with probably my favourite thing in the whole book

I decided to utilise two of my tags by including them, you can see the reverese of the white tage in the 'framed' picture at the top of this blog

to those that have seen this tag before forgive its inclusion but it has now become part of my Limited Edition Sketchbook as has the tag below

this one looks best held up to the light

this sketchwas for the tools of the trade required by those creating the clothes of the elite at the Royal Function from the first page in the previous blog


More pages soon.............

the first few pages of my sketchbook for the Brooklyn Art Library Limited Edition Sketchbook Project

my chosen theme

I took this write up from 1867 as my point of reference

party pages

crocheted wire necklace