Tell Me A Story

The Art Girls are back in the swing of things.
There are three of us (Megan, Lysh & myself) that try meeting up once a fortnight to create art. It got a bit out of whack toward the end of last year and begining of this year but we are now back into the swing of meeting regularly again.

It is good to have something in mind to work on on these nights and so we came up with the idea of doing another round robin altered book but this time with a bit of a twist....to create a story in each book. The next person building on / spring boarding off the previous page. We are creatively cooking the books using these Creative Cooking books! They're great as they are all the same size and thickness.

There is no pressure to create and no deadlines. The idea is only to create in these books on the night and if nothing is coming we move onto other things. If there are others we want to or have to work on then that's what happens. Simple. Fun.

   

Here is the first page in my book that I created over two meetings. We have not done the covers for these books, we decided to leave it to last as we have no idea where these stories will go.

Each of us are both similar and different in our art, ideas and approaches, and that's what makes these eveings interesting. I really do appreciate the supportive and encouraging environment, I'm sure we all do, that's why we keep coming back for more!...that and the laughs!

Comments

[JulieH]

Oh Wow! These pages are fabulous and the idea is wonderful. I play a game with students where each child adds five words to the story - and the stories go some weird places so I really look forward to seeing these ones unfold.

[Gillian]

Gorgeous deep indigo pages. One of these days I will finally get around to doing an altered book. If I ever finish faffing around, that is .....

[Lysh]

Ursula I can see that these story books are going to be the source of much blog fodder. My page in Megan's book had to take a dramatic turn (read rip out one page), but I'm finally pleased with the result and have posted a pic on my blog.