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Limited Palette From Leftover Paint
At the end of last year I was sketching in a 10 x 10 inch journal I had bound with Strathmore 500 Series Printing Paper. This paper isn’t sized for wet media like watercolor. It’s meant to be printed on. But it was sent to me in large sheets and I thought, “Why not bind […]
Book Arts Pocket, Some Dogs, and Some Beans
Make your journal work for you by utilizing your book arts skills and make a pocket! Sometimes there are scraps lying on the drawing table and I sketch on those scraps. (And yes, tape scraps together to make bigger scraps if necessary [bottom right].) These dog sketches on scraps of Strathmore 400 Series Mixed Media […]
In Context: Collage with Text
In April I painted a lot of background textures in a hand-bound journal I’d made with Fabriano Artistico. I’d taped the pages. Painted the textures. Then over the next week I returned to paint or collage on the backgrounds. This is one of my favorites. I admit I wanted to finish the book and couldn’t […]
In Context: Strathmore Museum Board Journal Spread
Sometimes I don’t write on my journal pages, sometimes I make a little note into a more pronounced caption. What was the “thing” that first attracted my eye to the subject? Sometimes the note or caption is there to remind me of what I was attempting to do, or reminding me of what I’d hoped […]