Getting Ready

Next week I am going to Littleheath Barn Studio for the first two days of a four day Summer School.  The second two days are a week later.

The theme is Buildings.  I love buildings and architecture and few textile artists seem to use this topic so I was excited to sign up.

However!

Do I use the redbrick buildings I love along the canals in the West Midlands?  Or do I use the beautiful architecture found in Venice as inspiration? 

I decided I would get out all the things I have related to the two topics.

Canals

Books

 

Sketchbooks

Photobooks

My poem as a Thermofax screen

Lots of collage material

Venice

Books

Sketchbooks

Stamps and Stencils

Thermofax screens

Another book, map, photos and postcards

A box of collage fodder and other inspiration

Well, it was good to find out what I had.  BUT!  I'm no further on in my choice.

Come back next month to find out what i did.

Thanks for stopping by
Bernice

Guess what! A book

However it's not a handmade one.

It is a photo book from Photobox.  I spotted a phenomenal offer for an A4 book with unlimited pages for only £20.   I trawled through my somewhat large collection of canal photos (I haven't actually counted how many there are but it will be at least in the upper hundreds), and uploaded them to the Photobox website.

I didn't write anything in the book.  The names of the places and the walks are not important, it was more about providing inspiration for my work.   I divided up the photos into themes.  You'll be pleased to know I'm not sharing every one of the 40 pages.

Boats

Bridges

 

Boats & bridges

Buildings

Loocks

A bit of everything

Winter

I was really please with the quality of the book although some of the green is bit - well, too much green - but considering how little I paid for it I am delighted.

Do you make photobooks with your photos?

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Autumn Colour

This month's photography theme has been Autumn.  I took quite a few photos and here are the ones I like best.

I hope you found time to go outside during the Autumn.  And maybe you took some photos.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Interruption

After I had sorted out my map pieces I interrupted myself by signing up for an online course with Sally Tyrie through Fibre Arts Take Two.  FATT courses are really well filmed and presented and this is the third one I've taken.

The appeal of this one, Visual Narratives - Print, Paint, Stitch with Sally Tyrie, was that it incorporated photography, collage and collograph plates.  If you are a regular reader you know that I take lots of photographs but rarely do anything with them creatively.  Sally talks about altering the photographs with a photo editor and layering the photos digitally.  She also talks about printing out the altered photos and layering them up manually.  Sounds like my sort of course.

It was my plan to leave the theme of canals alone for a while but the topic really fitted the Visual Narratives concept.

Today I'm going to show you some of the original photos and what I've done with them in the app Snapseed using my iPad.

See if you can spot which of the original photos feature in each of the following:

Snapseed is very addictive!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Spring

This month's theme for the ladies photography group was Spring.  The weather has been really odd during these weeks - it's been hot, cold and everything in between.  However I have managed to get outside and take photos rather than use ones from the archive.  Hooray.

I hope you are enjoying the Spring weather.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice