Fadwa.com
Fadwa.com
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Works
  • Upcoming Exhibition
  • Press & Media
  • Speaking
  • Contact
  • Home Sweet Home
  • Works
  • Upcoming Exhibition
  • Press & Media
  • Speaking
  • Contact

I won't come just because you waited

12/15/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
I like abstraction, simple materials, finding ways to create stories from thin air. Although that's not a rule! I'm also trying to avoid - as much as possible - buying art supplies which I can find substitutes for. At the moment, I still sometimes use bought journals, but I have also made my own from recycled magazine, newspapers and brown paper bags. (Later, in other posts, I will share these).

So materials used:
Strips of torn pages from books and magazines.
Glue stick and/ or modge podge
Old mags and/or books
White and black pens.
The background, which you can see bit of in the upper right, is actually the journal book created by Sabrina Ward. (P.S. One day I hope to publish a book like that).

I don't always know how the page will end up. I work with the composition first I play with placement, moving the strips of paper around. Changing my mind about orientation and position, and I sometimes end up excluding a scrap of paper I previously thought was great (but I don;t trash it. I have a box for these unused bits - they get a new life in a new work). I work fast usually. I stop and look to see how they pieces work together and what possible stories could come up. 

Once I'm happy with the composition, and a story formed, I glue the pieces down. Finally I added the black and white pens which integrate the pieces together and pulls in the final story - I won't come just because you waited.

Share your own journal pages on my Facebook page here
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

      Get inspired! Sign-up.

    Subscribe

    Archives

    October 2017
    June 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    June 2016
    April 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    January 2015

    RSS Feed

I Am What I Art

I Am What I Art for retreats and to buy available art. 

Art

Mixed Media
Fiber Arts
Journal Pages
Altered Books
Chaos of the Body
I AM WHAT I ART Manifesto

Buy 

Email me if you are interested in purchasing my art.
Picture
(c) Copyright Fadwa Al Qasem 2022