Inspired by Bluetonic's mission to 'awaken your blue mind', here's a bookart project: How to be Blue.
Continuing the celebrations of launching Today's Changing Room I invite you to contemplate blueness!
Whilst blue is traditionally linked with melancholy and low mood, it's also the colour of the sky and the sea - both magnificently uplifting elements of our natural world.
These little books - yes two-for-one this month - are like paint swatches or colour sample cards. A perfect project for people who love things organised neatly....and especially for those of us who have a whole array of art supplies just waiting for their day in the sun.
Blue doesn't have to be blue!
You'll need:
- Sample-sized rectangles of thick watercolour paper (I've used Khadi)
- Postcard size pieces of card x 6 (Also Khadi)
- Hole punch
- Wool, binder ring or thread
- As many shades of paint/pencil/crayon/felt tip/ink as you possess
- Something to write with
- Something to make notes on or in
Step-by-step:
Make a list of all the blues you see and feel, be they expansive or glum, moody or majestic, mundane or marvellous.
Work out which colour shade best suits each feeling or thing.
Mix the tones, and add them to each piece of paper like a swatch sample.
Make a hole at one end of each sheet.
Write/print/type your description on the reverse side.
Here are my (apparently unrelated) words all laid out.
Attach a loop of thread, or the ring binder, to keep them together.
What a simple quick and satisfying little book?!
Fancy developing that idea? Add three shades to each postcard-sized piece of paper.
You can choose whether they contrast or clash.
Describe each shade simply, poetically or elusively...
I like the possibility of mixing meaning.
This is going to be the cover page.
As before, punch a single hole at the end of each sheet.
Bind together with one knot!
The second book is done.
Keep making books until you've run out of blues, or paper, or light...
What are your most favourite and meaningful blues?!
The evocative palettes I've used are from Daniel Smith, Wallace Seymour, Derwent (Mountain Blue how had I lived without you?) and Case For Making.
See Bluetonic for more about awakening your blue mind.
Please show us and share your How to be Blue X
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