2005
Originally uploaded by lessherger

Most of my older journals are spare on the art side of things and focused much more on the words than images. In this case I glued in some business cards I picked up as we traveled my old stomping grounds in rural Maine. I wrote little notes about them. I used a waterproof ink in a rapidograph (shock) or something like a pilot precise grip or something else with waterproof ink. I let the ink completely dry and then work back into the page with watercolors.

When I wrote in these journals I purposefully wrote in chunks. Each idea or thought had it's own little section. Larger ideas had larger bubbles and smaller ideas smaller. In some cases I doodled outlines to the spots of thought, in other cases like this page I just used watercolor over the top of the ink.

I was working on 140lb cold pressed strathmore 400 series watercolor paper. At the time I used it because it was inexpensive, but also very serviceable. The page measures 5×7 and there were 24 pages in a journal.