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I recently watched a video from Ingrid Dijkers about re-purposing a three ring binder into an art journal. The concept got me thinking about an address book I bought years ago and never got around to filling in. My contacts are all digital now so it seemed like a great idea to use it for an art journal. I ended up collage-ing over it.

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So now I had this fun new art journal binder and I thought about what I should use for pages. I remembered I had watched another video years ago on creating journal pages with Teesha Moore. I had a big stack of “card” pages and by chance they were exactly the right size for the binder. So I punched holes in them and now I am taking them out one by one and working on the base pages I had started. I felt so happy resurrecting these things!

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Abstract Painting 1

 

a close up of the details…

 

Abstract 1 details

 

Bee and Tree final

 

Bee and Tree Detail Fina;

Octopus's Garden



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tree & bee ~ mixed media

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tree & bee detail

So the collages are done and now I need to get to work on them with my pens and words and in the mail by 1/15!

 

Cover -it just won’t scan very well -looks better in person…

Inside Front Cover

Color Waves -drawing

Collage au Creme

Black & White

Shades of Red

Oranges

It’s Golden

Go Green!

Feeling blue…

a bunch of violets

 

 

The Sketchbook project sent me new moleskine – I picked the theme “sketchbook” because it could be anything I want to put in my book and I want try to sketch more and include more hand drawn elements in my art. So far I have created a cover:

 

 

 

perhaps one of these Fridays I’ll even manage to participate!

http://illustrationfriday.com/

I am such a color geek  – loved that Pantone did this….