Endpaper Challenge Day 6: Sea

To make my 'Sea' Themed paper I again used pastepaper, but his time with layered and combed white paste on top of the dried blue and I then used the grainy white paste to paint on all the whales. I haven't cropped and digitally polished this because I like the rough wavy effect.

Below; are some of the paste textures and tools used in their creation.

                       Above: Bamboo knife

Above: potato masher

        Above: Bamboo cutlery, Below: Meat tenderiser

The extra papers were too nice to leave so I made Narwhals ... chasing cod and squid.

Endpaper Challenge Day 5: Nursery Rhyme

 

To make my nursery rhyme endpaper I disappeared down multiple worm holes, and ended up at mother goose, but I wanted her to be a happy, non-threatening glorious free woman, and I suppose to this end the design includes her chimney stack hat blowing away. 

                                        Above: Mary Parry, of Llanfechell.

The central egg is gold (I love my glitter watercolours) and the geese have the nursery rhyme books in their beaks. I put down a thick base of emulsion paint as I like to work on this surface and it liberates the paper from it's precious newness. 

Nursery Rhymes

Above: Hey Diddle Diddle by Randolph Caldecott. 

Above:1806 illustration from "The True History of a Little Old Woman Who Found a Silver Penny"

Above: 'The Mother Goose Parade', Anita del Campi, 1914.

Mother Goose

Above: Off With Mother Goose Mabel Louise Attwell 1927

Above and Below: Mabel Lucie Attwell, Mother Goose 1909. 

Mother Goose has always been an unsettling character to me and researching her now, she is usually depicted as very witchy, often in a basket, with a broom stick and even at times a black cat. However I feel she is far more appealing than most of the nursery rhymes that she nurtured in young children for they are often extremely unsavoury in their history and message.  

Above and below

Above: 'The Original Mother Goose Melodies', with Silhouette Illustrations by J. F. Goodridge, 1879

Above 1930's puzzle map of Mother Goose.

Above and below: Mother Goose from a 1860's chap book.

Above:Antique Vintage Gems From Mother Goose Rhymes Chimes And Jingles 1898 

Above cover, Below: endpaper from Mother Goose Melodies & Fairy Tales,1886.

Below: 'Mother Goose Melodies Set to Music', illustrated by Brothers Dalziel, 1873. No mother goose here but what a fab owl/fox character.

Above: Mother Goose Melodies Childrens Book The Platt & Peck Company Colour Illustrations By Dudley Robert Ambrose (1867-1951),1890's

Above: Mother Goose, Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith, 1922

Above: Old Mother Goose Illustration by Frederick Richardson 1921.

Above: 'The Mother Goose Parade', Cut-outs by Anita del Campi, 1914.

Above: Mother Goose illustrated by James McCracken (1875 - 1967), 1930.

Above: 'Mother Goose Land' Neel Bate, 1945.

Above: Rear cover of  London: Dean’s Rag Book Co. Ltd, . illustrated in colour by Laura Ethel Larcombe. 1915-1919.

Above: Endpapers from 'Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose' by Roger Garis, illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1916.

Endpaper Challenge Day 4: Butterfly

Day four of the endpaper challenge on instagram: Above my first offering squeeged paint, with black ink drawing. But then I wanted to do some more . . . I do morn the loss of knowledge about the natural world, and so I wanted the butterflies to be only slightly anthropomorphised and with lots of realistic detail. 

Above a Short Tailed Blue.

Above: a raggedy Comma, below a bling Peacock.

Then I just couldn't stop. 

Endpapers of day 3 Fairytale

 

Well today's offerings start with the genius of Mark Timmins's Rapunzel 

Above: 'Puss in Boots' by Eszter Racz

Above: The Princess and the Pea' by Naoko Sho

Above: The Red Shoes by Helen Nieuwendijk