I have been doing a bit of cleaning. One unfortunate result of having D-Square do such a good job on the floors is that I see how messy other things are!
This afternoon is my collage class. I have been working on finishing up a book cover project. I took a proof copy (meaning an early version I had to use to correct typos and such) of my mystery and played with it.
Here is a copy of the original cover. That photograph, by the way, is of a Carmelite monastery in Spain that I visited and photographed in the summer of 1978. The basic cover design is a template. For my other books, Tom designed the covers and did the art, resulting in much more attractive books.
Below is the collaged cover. I washed over the cover with some white acrylic to tone down the colors and glossy shininess, which may not be all that apparent in the above photograph. I cut out the daylight sky behind the monastery and inserted a night sky. The icon of St. John in the lower right hand corner is holding a small book. The handwriting, much too small to see here, is his actual writing. Across from the icon is a copy of an autograph signature. Around the edge of the book as a sort of frame, I have written in Spanish the first couple of lines of the poem "En una noche oscura" (better known in English as "One Dark Night"), which poem serves as a framework for the story in the novel. I inserted a tiny replica of the icon in one of the windows of the monastery, to represent John looking out. And the eyes in the sky are a bit of humor. By the title I placed a small scapular medal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
It's relatively simple but meaningful to me.
I finished up the bird/music collage pictured on my July 4 post. No changes in appearance, just getting things glued down and sealed.
My active project how is a small piece what will be attached to an old book. It has a Dodd family theme, but I will wait until I can take a photo before trying to explain it.
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