That's it for me; I'm all out of excuses.
Right before I left I received Elena's journal from our asian themed round robin group, and today I finished my pages.
Above is my two page spread. Elena had requested that we have a black border or frame, so I cut my watercolor paper about an inch smaller than her book and used black distress stain to make the border.
What I like most about these pages is that I think that everything I used on them is something that I received from a friend. Here are closer views of the two pages:
The first layer on the paper is a bunch of small squares cut from colored paper I received from Lee. Over that a coat of thinned out gesso, followed by some asian text from a newspaper I got from Teri. The gold and orange you see is joss paper and I think I got that from Sox. The bamboo is from a decorative napkin and if I'm not mistaken, Elena sent that to me. The beautiful images of the Japanese books are from a catalog that Kyoko brought all the way from Japan and gave to me on the cruise.
For better or worse, the haiku is all mine. I know Elena loves to read, which was the inspiration for these pages.
6 comments:
OMG!!! Eileen! I LOVE this!! Thank you so much. And you are right. When I was growing up we didn't have money to go anywhere at all - not even Disney! By reading I got to travel the entire world! Thank you so much!! I love you my friend!
What beautiful pages, and a lovely sentiment, too. She's going to treasure this book!
Beautiful pages!
Hello Eileen,
nice to seen this "friendsgifted" collage ! Great that you could use so much things you were given by friends all over the world !
Nice composition and you're right about traveling the world through books... but don't forget the internet ! :)
If thàt didn't bring the world to us ànd friends ?...:)
greetings from belgium
Inge
These are absolutely beautiful and I've never seen anything like them! I love that you used things from friends. You are an artist!!!
Fabulous work, she will love them!
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