IT'S ONLY ROCK -N- ROLL, BUT I LIKE IT....

only rock and roll

ok so if any of you have been following you will know that i am under ankle arrest.........so i have spent a lot of time reading, rock and roll memoirs...i love memoirs.....and when i get into readin any genre.....i become obsessed...oh, did i say that,......and i even from flickering the remote control i found some good rock u mentary's.........one of the things about never , ever having to lie with rockand roll....is that it was always there.......and now that i just a tad jaded.......i think back to music that was the best that rock and rolls and RANDblues have.....it kind of like you get to re write history in someway.....like when you think about you have such a perceptive of it....and music that as fads came and went..............STANDS THE FUCKING TEST OF TIME....when it is great it will always be great........

and now having all these people coming out of the woodwork telling their rock,roll tales......so you have to get your information from as many different places, so you knew what was true and what was not......and let's face it in the 60's and 70's you were always handed your daily dose of the viet nam n rock and roll...right on the 6 o'clock news.....it was a distraction to the real crap that was going on...... i remember some of my first rock and roll shows were with my sister maureen, at the fox theater on flatbush ave, BK.........but more about that another time......

whaT i have been doing under ankle arrest

this is what my silk sofa looks like when i am working in one of my "journal books".....i have supplies from everywhere to everything.....and like..over the place.....literally......and i want to thank my friend maxine for telling me a long time ago, when i was making "art quilts" that you should keep all the supplies that you are working on in a laundry basket.....250 laundry baskets later it kind of has become my default way of organizing my toys of the trade....

 

now where here it's the ADD thing.....i have been given many 3 and 4 letter titles ....any hoo i was so surprised to find out that in england they celebrate the day after my birthday....and we all know how i hate birthdays.....

loved this page.....this is my daughters until this  day and one will be graduating college in may......

this is the cover of a book....oh so i thought i was going to write a little about my process.....first i like to find books ....hardcovers, children, spiral.....i like spiral...and then i go through the book like a play on words and turn the already story, in a story kind of journal of my own.......then i like to add some kind of color to start, sometimes mixed with gesso , sometimes not..i used watercolor, ink pads, paints anything that is the color way goes.....color way very important and get to know and tones too......now i like if some of the pages are going to get sticky....then i go back and pull them apart.....i love the rippnes of the pages. then i add the first layer of fodder that i have around at that time....picking and chosing where it will go....or not...i usually have 2 0r 3 books  at the same time. i must go through each book adding layer upon layer before the book even starts to look good.....and my books are storybooks within themselves....so reading is a must. it's like if i have a box of markers, well today all the books are all going to get marks....if i find a sticker pile, their getting stickers.....new magazine at my door.....well, what do you think it going happen.......i'll save more for another time...but here is a sneak peek at a book with only 3 rounds......