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Xoi Ga Bun 2001
Sticky rice, chicken, round rice noodles
Bamboo portfolio
Saunders Waterford, Arches 90wt, bamboo, spirit, rice and other paper from Vietnam, Old Vietnamese book, museum board, watercolor, rubbings, gouache,
Paintings and drawings, old Vietnamese book, Xerox transfers, fan, buffalo stamp, pen and ink, street litter,
Fabric, notepaper, newspaper, ribbon, thread, raffia
Poems by the artist
10 x 7 ¼ inches
The paper in Sketchbook Project 2013 http://www.sketchbookproject.com/ I received in the mail is thin and creamy colored. I’m planning on taking the book apart, using the original cover, but adding my own paper.
Photographing chairs has been an ongoing project of mine. This seems to be a good place to start.
Yesterday I printed on standard copy paper about 30 pages of images pertaining to chairs and sitting. This morning I’ll scan some drawings done during my travels. The paper is too thin to really dig into or paint on so I may gesso one side of the page to give it some body or cover the image with a clear mat medium. The images are both horizontal and vertical. We’ll see which orientation wins out.
The image above is from a book I made in Vietnam. I cut paper before we left on our trip. Each day I would take a few sheets to draw on. Some art supplies and a few sheets of paper fit in my backpack without having to carry around the weight of a sketchbook. The sheets of paper were separate too so I could put them together any way I wanted when I got home.
Tags: Art, Artists' Book, drawing, Gesso, Hanoi, india ink, Materials, Mixed media, paint, Paper, poetry, sketchbook, The Sketchbook Project 2013, Vietnam, Visual Arts, Xerox transfer print
January 9, 2013 at 10:17 am |
I love this, Carla! Your sketchbook is going to be fantastic.
January 10, 2013 at 7:22 am |
You have more belief in me at this point then I do. Thanks. I’ll see what happens. Not a lot of time to put into it.
January 10, 2013 at 3:01 am |
I love travels in sketches. It sounds like you’ve covered a lot of places. Lovely!
January 10, 2013 at 7:23 am |
Oh I would love to go again ! anywhere
January 10, 2013 at 7:11 am |
Oh to be this creative!
January 10, 2013 at 7:23 am |
I sure do need my muse now!
January 18, 2013 at 5:06 pm |
What you do is beyond me, amazes me, and now, thrills me. Good luck to what you do.
January 19, 2013 at 9:14 am |
There is mutual admiration going on here between you and me
For you and others and for myself I will try to keep going. Maybe another year of blogging coming up. I like my little community here.