Words of Wisdom/Advice

Front cover, which is a piece of muslin with the kitchen sink attached

Inside the front cover and first page

Following the principles of collage

Like these because they can stand independent yet flow into each other

Last page and inside back cover

I have used fabric as a basis for book covers before. Not quite in this manner. The mainly tissue collage was adhered using Golden's Soft Mat Gel. I have had this jar for ages and trying to use it up. Dina had us collage both sides while they were wet. Some of my tissue stuck to the deli sheets I had under this mess.  Let us review: started this around 1:30 on Saturday, set it aside to dry by 2:30 and there was no way I could handle this to put the book together until Sunday afternoon. If doing this again, I would put the piece of muslin outside in the sun to dry.  It does make a nice flexible cover.

The idea was to use your white space as a design element. Colored paper that we painted was used for the connections. That would be the blue-ish music paper. Dina added yellow to her word cut outs and I liked that pop of color, so continued that idea throughout the entire book.

Fun, fun class but far more work than what you would think. This would make a lovely gift for someone special in your life. But my mind is whirling around on that cover. Thinking I would like to rip fabric scraps, and randomly sew them together onto the muslin for the front cover, then make something to add on the inside covers. Hmmmmmmm. One never knows. (BTW, negative on the Covid test)
Linda