Having fun

 The sketchbook work continues.  I'm gradually going back and adding to the pages from previous Modules.  I've also been taking pictures, and searching Google images for material to add. In a previous module, I prepared some papers to be used in this way, and am finding them useful.  The pages I'm most pleased with are abstract collages.  This is a surprise to me, as I had agonized over the collage section of the workshop.  Here are a couple that I consider finished (I reserve the right to reverse that decision).

The above is a happy accident.  I had done something to cause the two pages to stick together.  In trying to force them apart, I tore the surface layer off both pages.  This left the whole area quite weak, so I wanted to reinforce it, and added a torn piece of tracing paper that had been used to protect the table top and had pink-ish paint all over it.  I glued that on, but it still need something, so a second darker layer was added to that.  That was okay for awhile (a couple of weeks)  Then I added the checkerboard stamping with a home made  stamp.  I quite like the result, but still feel that something is missing, and will probably add onto it again.

This second page started when I used two white pages to clean my foam paint roller.  The yellow shredded paper towel was added, then the collaged  tracing paper pieces to which black marks had been added.  Finally the rubber stamping with both commercial and home made stamps.  I'm pretty well sure that this is finished.

Finally, I keep coming back to this.  This is my favourite page, and I'm convinced that there is a fibre piece hidden in here.  I fully intend to pursue that.