book collage fun

OldBirdKing and Tom Cat

in their prime

as they are now

OBK hitching a ride on Tom Cat's scruffy old tail

Inspired by all the ladies Dee Grace Liz Marti Nancy (and those whose blogs I could not locate - sorry for that) who were collaging with Acey, I had a go at collage myself. 

As I don't react well to prompts & in the spirit of regaining as much self confidence as I can, I decided to follow my own rules.

I had a story 'Cat&Bird Tale', I have life long desire to make a book (by hand), I had a ready-made leporello for structure, as the printer* refuses to print yellow tones I had to improvise with the printing and used magazine paper to compensate for the lack of full colour, I churned out a couple of ink-wash illustrations, retraced photo's of old cloth pieces with a shadow cat and a shadow bird from way back

I looked for and found a photograph of my father as a young boy, he's the proud owner of Tom Cat. And so it began: I took photographs of the images, printed the story and the images onto appropriate bits of magazine paper, cut them to size and glued these images all into the leporello

* not going there today;-)

Front cover

I realised - too late! - I had glued the beginning of the story to the end part of the book by mistake, oh well

the print results are not perfect on the magazine paper, but the text is still reasonably legible; I am not happy with the bubbles but hey, first effort 

Back cover

it's not a practical way to read a book, but I do think it would be an enjoyable experience to read a book like this together with a child