2017 #11 Books: The evolving Book {by Bryan Evans}

2017 Topic 11: Books - Book As You Go

I am so pulled into Bryan's intuitive style of creating. He just seems to go with the flow so smoothly, and his work always has a fabulous, almost raw feel from the found elements and his photography too, but there is a sense of a true depth to the reasons behind the layers and process. I find this approach super-inspiring.

Hi everyone, it's Bryan here from GeezerCrafter with you today, and I'd like to share with you my Book As You Go project.

I wanted to create a sort of 'loose' style of book that I could constantly add to over time. The front and back cover consists of collage elements using the fab range of Mini stamps and some of the Fresco Chalk Paint range. The board from the Please Do Not Bend envelopes makes great stability for the covers.

This worked really well for me, just a brayered layer of Inky Pool Fresco Chalk Paint, and some smearage direct from Distress Oxide Faded Jeans.

Really pleased that I did not brayer to the edges, sits nicely with the colour of the collaged elements.

 Mini 03, Mini 19, Mini 28, Mini 26

Banana Fresco Chalk Paint, nice combination with Little Black Dress, I made a collograph printing plate by using stamped and cut out beach huts using Jofy JM24. I little left over paint was used with some wood pens to make some marks.

JM24

Just love the fishy stamp!!

Mini 100

These Mini stamps are a joy to work with, I enjoyed making backgrounds and focal points. A bit of my photography of a telegraph pole outside our house, makes an interesting combination.

This page initially did not work for me, So I used this to 'clean' off the brayer from other pages. When I came back to it a few days later, I really liked it, made me feel relaxed and 'grounded'. I will make some more like this and place at intervals in the book!

As my book has no 'set' pages I can incorporate different substrates, here I found some plastic packaging. Really pleased how it took a mixture of Inky Pool and Banana Fresco Chalk Paints.

I have really enjoyed making this book, I look forward to seeing your take on this challenge. There are lots of style of book that you can make. I am going to try making accordion and concertina books. Try to incorporate different types of art with your stamps, paints and Inks. Check out all of those fab Mini range of stamps, don't forget there are also Signature designers ranges too.

Blog: www.geezercrafter.com
Facebook: Bryan G Evans

I love that this book can evolve; pages can be added, removed, re-organised in any order - what a fantastic way to make a book suit you perfectly! Wonderful!

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