Final Slideshow of my Sketchbook Project

Below is a slideshow of my final images for my theme, "Great Hopes and Massive Failures" for the Sketchbook Project.  I feel a great sense of connectedness knowing however many other people also participated, and that all the sketchbooks will be on tour together, and end up in a library together. They will create their own little community...telling stories or vivid recreations of their artists thoughts and ideas. I'm glad I participated in this challenge.

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Sketchbook Project & AEDM

Here are the last 3 spreads for my sketchbook project. Like I've said before, I'm not sure the flow and unity of the entire thing is the best, but I feel good about completing this project. I've scanned all the images, and will probably post a link with them all gathered together when I get time :)

Sketchbook pages 23-28

Watercolor/Pen

And as today is officially Nov. 1, here is the sketchbook I made for Art Every Day Month (AEDM). I used the moleksine paper from the sketchbook took out for the rebinding for the Sketchbook Project, a file folder for the covers, and collaged magazine pieces for the design.

10.27.10

Sketchbook pages 21 & 22

Watercolor and Pen

The words in the light might be hard to read. They are:
I can do this
love
awareness
hope
I miss you
healing
I love you

10.25.10

Sketchbook pages 19 & 20

Pen and Watercolor

10.12.10

Sketchbook pages 15 & 16

Pen/Watercolor & Pen/Ink

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Good things from this weekend:

- My first ever marathon...I was part of a cheering crew for a friend. I made this sign for it!

- Yummy food and fun with my family back home.

- Two grocery bags of little boy clothes.

- Rain.

Hard things from this weekend:

- Picking up the stuff we stored after Lyra died.

- Sorting through her clothes to find the gender neutral ones.

- *sob*

10.6.10

As promised, more pages from my Sketchbook Project.

Random

I have labels for my post. But apparently not enough. I couldn't find one particular post I'd written, and consequently went month by month searching for it. Then followed my creating many more labels to make finding things easier in the future.

One of the drafts I had sitting around, I accidentally posted last night. I didn't realize it til after I'd relabeled everything and looked at my front page. By that time, I had several comments already, so I left it. Thank you for those comments - looking back I don't remember the specific reason for not having posted it originally. Maybe it was more complaining? I don't recall. But thank you for reading it, and responding anyway :)
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I've been crocheting again. Testing out a pattern to try this weekend when I get together with a friend. She might try to teach me knitting, and I will try to teach her crocheting. Another fun thing to look forward to :)
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Baby S.uh and I have hit the halfway point. I feel kicks more consistently now, and that relieves a lot of worry. Two days til we hope to find out if it's a boy or girl. Can you tell I'm bad at waiting?
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I've been figuring the layout for my sketchbook project. Something I probably should have done at the very beginning, but it's working out fine at the moment. Should have some scans to show soon.

8.25.10

Sketchbook Project

Pages 7 & 8

Watercolor Pen

Decided to reproduce some of my earlier work for the sketchbook.

8.21.10

Sketchbook Project

Pages 5 & 6

Pen

8.18.10

Sketchbook Project

Pages 3 & 4

Pen & Watercolor

8.7.10

My Critic has made a reappearance.

This sketchbook project has brought him back with insults and doubts blazing. After rebinding my sketchbook with watercolor paper, I promptly left it alone. I made the excuse that I needed to do some practice sketching first. In my head I followed that statement up with, "so I can be sure and appear professional and good and not mess up the sketchbook. I may not have gone to a fine arts school, but that doesn't mean I'm not actually good." Some version of that kept cycling through my brain. After finally voicing it out loud to L one night, he said something along the effects of, "Just dive in. This isn't a competition. Even if it were, just be you." He's been giving me that advice a lot lately...the 'just be you' part. I do love that man for many reasons...that being one of them. So, I had a hand in this first round of battles with the Critic. Hopefully I can handle the bastard on my own from now on. But it's nice knowing I have backup if I need it.

The following is the first pages of my sketchbook project. The binding is slightly atrocious, so please overlook that :) I am quite delighted with it thus far though, and look forward to filling the rest of it up!

8.5.10

Weeping Willow

Brainstorm with markers

9x12

The tree I'm happy with. The rest of it, not so much.

Sketchbook: Rebound with Watercolor Paper - Before

It's not perfect, but it's complete :)

Sketchbook Project: Rebinding

Thanks to an idea dropped by Liberty, today is my day to rebind my sketchbook with watercolor paper. In college, we always had to make and bind our own books for final production, so I feel like the ability is there to do it. It's just a matter of my own patience :)

Wish me luck!

Question for you today: What's something you feel you can do and maybe even do well, but often don't have the patience or in this new normal, the energy/motivation to do it? I know that would like to have more energy and motivation to cook/bake again.

Sketchbook Project

At 5am this morning, when I couldn't sleep, I was surfing my google reader and Creative Kismet had some information about the Sketchbook Project . After browsing their website, I have signed up and am busily thinking on my theme: Great Hopes, Massive Failures. I'm still doing the Creative Everyday Challenge (C.E.D.) this is just an added challenge. Which begs for me to explain how I'm going to manage to do this new project, when I've been less than everyday, heck, less than weekly on the C.E.D.?

Ha. I laugh in the face of obligatory feelings though. At least right now. I'm excited to do this project. And I even have an inkling to pick up my brushes and watercolor paper again. There is an ebb and flow in creativity. My ebbs have just been longer than my flows lately :)

One more day to leave a comment on the giveaway post . I choose the winner tomorrow!