Here are the final couple of pages in the Philippines set...
....the first has a silhouette of one of the dragons sitting atop the Taoist temple in Cebu City (our first stop en route)...
I did this onto Brusho-sprayed watercolour paper with Indian ink then sprayed over it again when done.
Rubber stamps for Yin and Yang...and a yin-yang surrounded by the I Ching hexgrams.
...and the added bitties are some chinese coins and 3 polymer clay pieces I did some time ago (these are impressed with wooden chinese printers block - typeface)
The second is done with a Colouricious Hmong print block (onto hand-dyed and Brusho-sprayed abaca tissue)
Here are the final 2 tags in the Philippines group....
....again, strips of prepared pares, fabrics and some Angelina fibres.
I added a Fimo piece in my book sample simply because I liked the look of it... :-)
The finished 4 tags were strung with some hand-dyed silk thread...
...which were then plaited to tie the set together.
I'm minded to do another couple of page spreads for the Philippines....
....maybe I can blog those on the weekend...
Have a great day.
x C
p.s.
I didn't want to do a second post today...
...but you WILL forgive me if you follow this bit down to the YouTube vid!
Going a bit senile lately, I can't remember who I was telling about this, but I KNOW it was someone who reads this blog so ...
...I've just had a snoop around on YouTube for this snippet from the early 90's..
...and FOUND IT! Yey!!!
(YouTube is such a miracle - I thought that I would never have the utter pleasure of listening to this bit of program again!!)
I remember crying with laughter when it was going out live....
...and the day after when they played it again on the same show...
...and it happened again this morning when I listened to it again!
I make no apologies for the exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!
This proves beyond doubt that a completely-losing-it- good belly-laugh is better than anything else to lift the spirits and blow the bad-weather cobwebs away :-)
I've had to think quite carefully about the items folk will actually be making during the two hours that they spend with me as the ship travels from one port to another.
I decided on a "tag book" from the start...
...as it IS a holiday and luggage labels seem like suitable things to carry holiday memories.
I have to take most of the bits and pieces with me, but I'm hoping to pick up things like local newspapers, paper bags, wrappers, till receipts, postage stamps, low-value paper money etc on excursions.
These bits'n'bobs can then also be used to ground the memories as it were.
Obviously, luggage tags are only relatively small...
...therefore nothing TOO ambitious can be planned (and to be done in a couple of hours as well!)
So, I've gone for colour combos for the Philippines part of the trip...
...collaged, printed and stitched...
...using hand-dyed and prepared papers and batik fabrics.
