This week, Lisa posted my book "Characters in Search of a Novel" at Ten Two Studios. This was made for a design team challenge to use manila envelopes and tabbed pages, and I wanted to incorporate the Color Me Victorians collage set.Each manila envelope is attached to a tabbed page and contains a character bookmark. I had fun assigning themes and archetypes. Some text was from the collage set; some I printed from my computer or wrote on the tabs: Romance & Revolution, Hero & Villain - all those archetypes.
The best part, of course, was coloring all the Victorian sketches! Literary child's play?
The background text on the bookmark tags was from an old copy of Silas Marner.
All the fun of English literature without having to write a meaningful essay about it!
7 comments:
Oh my god, I want to do this! All the fun of English literature without having to write an essay is just what I was thinking. It would be so fun to do something like this with folk heroes or mythological creatures. But, hmmm, maybe I should finish my thesis first :)
I bet your thesis committee would enjoy an illustrated & interactive art project so much more than a bunch of words on paper :D
Carolyn, these are BEYond FABulous!!! Each one is so detailed and special, and the colors are fantastic! Gorgeous work! Hugs, Terri xoxo
Thanks, Terri! :D
What a cool book concept! I love them and would really like to see a tutorial sometime - just showing your steps. So fun!
Carolyn, these are absolutely G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S!!!
Wow! What a talent!!!
Thanks, Laura & Juanita!
@Laura - not sure I could do a tutorial per se since I tend to make it up as I go along. :D
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