I spent the majority of yesterday reading stuff for school. I’m trying to get a lot of the reading I have due done so I can move onto the papers I have due. I finally took a break and decided to dive into something, a project of sorts that has been sitting on the back burner for awhile now. After a lovely series of emails with a friend I decided I had to get some work done.

I picked up a pair of “smash books” over the summer. If you have been reading my blog for any time you know I'm not a huge fan. They were on clearance for $4 each. When I finally started testing them out, I was disappointed in them. The paper isn’t very nice for fountain pens or liquid inks. But does okay with other things. A quick test with acrylic shows a lot of wrinkles, especially in the style that I work. Needless to say, they aren’t really for me. I have worked with worse.

BUT.

I have them and I want to do something with them so I started to go through and glue in some collage elements (personal ephemera) and layering some scraped acrylic paint over the top. Any pages with words- well they have my own stuff on them, dark pages? covered in white paint. I’ll add some colors and more collage pieces in today.

I think I’ll draw with sharpies on the pages. Or anything else that will write on acrylic paint.