Virtual Visit to the Victoria and Albert
I love the Victorian time period. Love the architecture, furniture, and most of all victorian scrap. Impressionism happened during this time but, are rarely associated with each other. And, most of all the discovery of color in printing came out of this time. Lithography was a method used to layer colors and it is really when graphic arts began. Advertisements used beautiful scenes and flowers for motifs. They were so beautiful everyone couldn't throw these scraps away and preserved them in scrapbooks. For a long time I would think during our lifetime what did we not throw away and couldn't think of anything. But, then when Glen thought of upcycling our record collection it was a light bulb moment. He used the actual records and I loved to go through the record sleeves to make file folders, post cards, greeting cards, decopauged boxes and scrapbooks out of the covers. So, this visit to the Victoria and Albert museum wa...