Altered Calendar
Back to the mystery envelope!
I have had so much fun with this next piece! I've been working on it almost non-stop and put the finishing touches on it last night.
This is an old 1992 wall calendar and since it is filled with scenic photos I first thought I'd just make envelopes from the pictures but I started to go through it looking to see if there were any images suitable for collage. There wasn't, but as I looked through the pictures I found myself drawn to the calendar pages.
They are squares after all and you know how drawn I am to squares! Anyway, the pages have a lot of writing on them which I found very interesting. One entry states that one of their calves was killed by a school bus and another was bitten by a rattlesnake! Also the waterstains on the pages and the canvas reinforcements around the hole on each page added a certain charm. I had thought of altering a calendar in the past and now was the perfect opportunity!
This is the first spread I've done and I think I'll try to do one spread each month. It was hard to capture a good photo of the whole thing but this is the best I could get it, the colour is way off but you get a good idea of what it looks like.
![Altered Calendar](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sWJLuZeJ6sV8Ywd3ZrflnNCI6CW7WZncORW6Fc34ifNYS-9ltbD-jJ8RkfnLJ4erxQLzjN25G6oCuJPNApT5W08Lcq-xBijGXtK1OUmaGbEKwnN_jlzeRacRfysW56tbM=s0-d)
The colours are more true in this close up of the top half:
![Altered Calendar (top)](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t5aHt4bUe1AlCnFhqP4hjwGq_IZvmNtPJVKZyRuMqyj9bWCTFdyAscw2TB-8CYUZVVqLSFLodz9iN_Pp8CIUvu8equ1rZTvu8D_GGDrYqlupr7nxDPAOHKQuVSF3_z=s0-d)
And a close up of the bottom half:
![Altered Calendar (bottom)](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sXgCP0BuHIXPnki4tZkAoEgohi4S4auINjcI-YqYe419rfmaPWAn9RbgBKuNgKbq8A-ERCBUVenBUo-rVVKX6r8zVYjhhq_5uc6rOLVNzzy_02jcMLx2hBPnFkUfMO=s0-d)
And a couple of close-up details:
![Altered Calendar (detail)](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tP-nLH_pZJncrd7IZJc07QJ-tf0bRLAvP3gChvqX-IrVywHVrkIjwAo9VR7Vx4nL7M98DAGnN_sQYEoA_CCAQzeaTqqAmBzAm70tb1cicbJU6q5GCNO6izuZddcHJwOCo=s0-d)
I have had so much fun with this next piece! I've been working on it almost non-stop and put the finishing touches on it last night.
This is an old 1992 wall calendar and since it is filled with scenic photos I first thought I'd just make envelopes from the pictures but I started to go through it looking to see if there were any images suitable for collage. There wasn't, but as I looked through the pictures I found myself drawn to the calendar pages.
They are squares after all and you know how drawn I am to squares! Anyway, the pages have a lot of writing on them which I found very interesting. One entry states that one of their calves was killed by a school bus and another was bitten by a rattlesnake! Also the waterstains on the pages and the canvas reinforcements around the hole on each page added a certain charm. I had thought of altering a calendar in the past and now was the perfect opportunity!
This is the first spread I've done and I think I'll try to do one spread each month. It was hard to capture a good photo of the whole thing but this is the best I could get it, the colour is way off but you get a good idea of what it looks like.
The colours are more true in this close up of the top half:
And a close up of the bottom half:
And a couple of close-up details:
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terry