My first post of the year is about the wonderful Bead Journal project, founded in 2007 by Robin Atkins. This project invites artists to keep a journal in beaded format, with one entry a month. Members are given great freedom in the forms they can choose, and I’ve decided to use that freedom to the fullest, by creating a beaded doll every month to represent myself. The dolls will be mixed-media, and I’ll be using polymer clay, found objects, beads, wire, glass, paper, and anything else that seems to fit. Each doll will have the same face, but I suspect the end results will be quite different each time. At the end of the project, I’ll create an installation piece that incorporates all the dolls. (But don’t ask me what form that’ll take yet!)
You can follow my adventures here, and they will also be posted on the Bead Journal Project 3 Blogger site. We’re not allowed to post pictures on the Project Blog (some members don’t want to be influenced by other artists’ choices), so you’ll be able to find both descriptions and images of my project here.
