It’s the last day of the Toronto Public Library’s Keep Toronto Reading month, and here’s the final installment of bookmarks to see off April. I hope you like the color combinations!
Month: April 2011
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Purple and Pink Collage Bookmarks
The bookmark series continues, and this time it’s all about purple and pink. I’d like to dedicate the purple ones to the memory of my artistic friend Jenny.
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More Collage Bookmarks in Yellow, Orange, and Red
The bookmarks keep coming, this time in warm colors. Before the mini-collages disperse to various friends and colleagues, I’d like to record their images here.
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Collage Bookmarks: Green Collection
Lately I’ve been enjoying a relaxation technique called Make a Lot of Bookmarks and Give Them Away! I hope you enjoy the green bookmark collection.
More bookmark images will follow this post in yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, and blue!
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Six Collage Bookmarks
For the past few days I’ve been in the mood to make bookmarks. I’m planning to give them as gifts, so I’d like to present them here before they go on their way.
What books will they eventually inhabit, I wonder?
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“Theater of the Bosom” Textile Art
I started “Theater of the Bosom” on the train from Montreal to Quebec City about a month ago. While I was lounging in my seat, I stitched the fingers of a fuzzy glove between the buttons of the apricot shirt. I also sewed together a couple of swatches of floral and camouflage fabric.
“Theater of the Bosom” by Catherine Raine, 2011When I returned home to Toronto, I covered a small canvas with the fabric patchwork (plus glove-n-shirt) and added more fabric. Then I took an old sports bra and dressed the canvas with it.
“Theater of the Bosom,” Catherine Raine, 2011I thought the bra-stuffing turned out nicely, so I may as well reveal the secret to a perfect fabric silhouette: shoulder pads, pantyhose, and bits of a shirt.
For theatrical embellishments, I draped a scrap of the camouflage material (originally a bandana that my friend Noreia bought at the dollar store) and added another glove, a ribbon, more fabric scraps, and some felt.I used stencils and fabric paint to write on the bra. Later, I dabbed small blobs of purple encaustic wax over the dried paint.
“Theater of the Bosom” by Catherine Raine, 2011I hope that “Theater of the Bosom” will serve as a playful reminder to respect the beauty of the female form, no matter what shape, age, or dramatic dimension!
