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<\/a><\/p>\nI like to work with a theme and in the week leading up to the Top 2000 party, I came up with all kinds of ideas but none of them seamed fun or feasible. (For instance: create a ‘found poem’ with every entry… I liked that idea very much but it would take way too much time to achieve.) When the official Top 2000 list was published online, I still had no theme so I decided to just ‘go with the flow’ and choose a fun and happy song to start with.<\/p>\n
Techniques\/materials: Homemade gelatin monoprints,\u00a0 letter drawing (title) and stamping with handcarved stamps (circles) and coloured with sharpies<\/em><\/p>\n #1882 Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n When the first spread was done, I looked for a song to create something with for the second day of the party… My eye fell on a songtitle that seemed to follow the first songtitle quite nicely and an idea came to mind: I could go with the ‘found poetry theme’ after all, if I made the entries follow each other like a poem – forming a ‘story’ if you like…\u00a0 From that moment on, I choose songs for their title (and not necessarily because I like them…)<\/p>\n Techniques\/materials: Pages from an old map glued to background. Painted with gesso and acrylics (used a handcut template to create the gesso ‘blocks’ in the bottom left corner.) Pieces of a gelliprint (filled the silhouette with an old map). Handwriting\/lettering with sharpies,<\/em><\/p>\n #1533 Animals – We’ve Got To Get Out Of This Place<\/strong><\/p>\n With the idea that the songtitles should make a ‘poem’, I came up with two songtitles for the third day. I wanted the pages to be nice to look at if you view them seperately\u00a0 (after all, the number of the songs were different and so it should be possible to publish them seperately – with a little distance of each other and other art works\/songs in between.) But I also want it to match as a spread, to continue the ‘story’…\u00a0 Here’s the spread I created:<\/p>\n Techniques\/materials: Dylusion Spray inks. Different templates and a handcut silhouette (inspired by a photo my son took of me)\u00a0 Piece of monoprint (circles), dictionary page, cut out teksts, doodling with markers\/sharpies. #1502 Peter Sarstedt – Where Do You Go To My Lovely<\/strong><\/p>\n #1488 Wham – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go<\/strong><\/p>\n When you start to look at a list of songtitles, it is amazing how much choise there is in titles that form a poem. Really… I had difficulties narrowing it down to just two songtitles to work with! But the next ones seemed fun and happy, and I wanted the ‘story’ I was creating to be a happy and fun one… I ‘brought the pages together’ by continuing the dotted line on the right page.<\/p>\n Techniques\/materials: Black\/Blue\/Purlpe acrylic paint, cut out photo of the earth, cut out pieces of monotypes (“planets”) spray ink and handmade template\/silhouette, Dylusion Spray inks, dimensional paint (the ‘lines’), handwriting and doodling with white posca pen.<\/em><\/p>\n #1164 Beatles – Across The Universe<\/strong><\/p>\n #1090 Joe Cocker – You Can Leave Your Hat On<\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t like the next song, but the songtitle fitted the ‘story’ so well, and when I saw the title I had an image in mind right away. So I went with it. (Again, I added a dotted line to strengthen the feeling of continuation.)<\/p>\n Techniques\/materials: Torn photo of the fall of the Berlin wall (found on the internet, original photo by Jean-Claude Coutausse<\/a>), acrylic paint. #709 Spandau Ballet – Through The Barricades<\/strong><\/p>\n Most of you know, I had a rough year with a burn-out and all kinds of obstacles on my way… I’m doing better lately but I felt I needed to get it out on this page. The title of the Fleetwood Mac song just called for that (it is also one of my fave songs, so I really wanted to include it.) I painted the songtitle on top of my journaling (as it is rather personal\/private) and the page came out beautiful!<\/p>\n Techniques\/materials: Pieces of monoprints (for the back and border), handwriting (marker) and letterdrawing (black marker and white acrylic paint) #500 Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well<\/strong><\/p>\n There were so much songtitles I could choose for on the last day! I roughly selected 23 titles at first, and then started to eliminate. I first got rid of all the ‘negative’ titles as I wanted my ‘story’ to end happy. One title also gave me the opportunity to include an image of a couple… my beloved and I like to go for long walks and I found a beautiful silhouette of a walking couple. So finally, the choise was made and here are my two pages for the last day – again, they can be viewed seperately as well as a spread.<\/p>\n Techniques\/materials: Gelatin monoprint, selfmade templates (silhouette and circle), doodling and letterwriting with markers\/sharpie and text cut out of magazines.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n #261 Queen – These Are The Days Of Our Lives<\/strong><\/p>\n #104 Beatles – Here Comes The Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n And here’s the ‘table of content’ which is the clue to this book… ’cause it makes a found poem! Here’s a more detailed photo (you can click on the image to enlarge.) And here’s the very last page: a plastic pocket to store the Top 2000 list.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n(I see only now that I made a mistake in the names & numbers at the bottem of this page – Joe Cocker is missing! Oops!)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIn case you still cannot read it – this is the ‘poem’<\/p>\nMagical Mystery Tour<\/h2>\n
We’ve Got To Get Out Of This Place<\/h2>\n
Where Do You Go To My Lovely<\/h2>\n
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go<\/h2>\n
Across The Universe<\/h2>\n
You Can Leave Your Hat On<\/h2>\n
Through The Barricades<\/h2>\n
Oh Well<\/h2>\n
These Are The Days Of Our Lives<\/h2>\n
Here Comes The Sun<\/h2>\n
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