Helen O'Hara – Community Artist – Joondalup, Perth, WA

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Journals - Fabric, Paper and More


I have just taken an on-line art course, Remains of the Day, to make this fabric covered journal. It uses up lots of scraps and plenty of machine stitching. Here's the back cover:


Inside the pages are sewn, not glued, together from lots of scrap papers, Gelli prints and magazine cuttings. here are a couple of the pages:




I'm not sure what I'm going to use the journal for yet.

Here are a couple of pages painted in my regular journals:

Acrylics, ink sprays, paint pens

Acrylics, collage, paint pens

Altered photo, collage, acrylics

And a recycled baby-wipe postcard:


I've also been using up tiny scraps of fabric and paper to make these fabric gift tags:





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