Author Archives: leslie

Kitti Graffiti

Check out the website Kitti Graffiti it's hilarious but gives me ideas about pasting things into a journal and sketching on it to make it into something else.

It would be neat to paste a pic into a journal, gesso around the stuff you don't want and then sketch onto it to make other things. I think I'll try it.

Craig Atkinson

I like nothing more than browsing sketchbooks that the artist's have been so gracious as to load up for my viewing pleasure, Craig Atkinson is one of those gracious people. Check out his many many journals/ sketchbooks online here, be prepared to spend an hour or so, there's a lot of good stuff for your viewing pleasure

Custom Recycled Journal

MY friend asked me to make her a custom recycled journal to give as a gift, so I did. The cover is made of a recycled advertising sign with pockets stitched into it for support and storage. Inside are 240 pages of Wausau 30% post consumer waste recycled paper with 25% cotton and it's a nice 24lb paper. It's a natural color with green lines for writing.

I stitched it up with heavy hemp thread, lightly waxed for ease of use. The stitching is simply a linked long stitch. I really like how the hemp looks against the cover.

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Things kids today will never know about

This article from wired.com had me thinking.I has nothing to do with books or journaling, but it made me thing so I'm posting it here, because it could be a good thing to spark some great memories for journaling purposes.

It made me think of the first time we popped in a VHS tape and watched a movie and on Christmas eve when we hooked up the NES for the first time and my brothers, Dad and I stayed up ALL night playing super Mario Brothers and swapping games with our friends; thought of an age before the internet and programing basic in DOS on an Applie IIe in the sweltering heat of our upstairs office. It made me think of my Dad's first CD player, a realistic that was the size of a DVD play is now, and the great pains we took to put it in the car, in a foam cradle so it wouldn't skip; and how it always did. It made me think of my first CD player and my first CD (Pixies Trompe le Monde) and listening to it for hours.

Anyway, what does this article bring to your mind? Journal it.

Recycled Sign Journal Stack


REcycled Sign Journal Stack
Originally uploaded by lessherger

Not a great pic of these journals but it gives you an idea. I’ve been working on these all week. Monday I stitched the covers. tuesday I punched the holes and folded the paper. Wednesday I trimmed the paper. and The rest of the week I stitched them all together. this sort of piece work makes these seem to go really fast.

Most of these are on my ArtFire Shop here.

large sized jotters all of them


large sized jotters all of them
Originally uploaded by lessherger

It's been a long weekend here in my studio. I started churning out books on Friday and here it is sunday and I'm listing a bunch of them. I've been stitching up books while I watch TV too. SO I've gotten a massive amountof books made this week. This stack of large jotters is just one example.

I happened onto some log books that were being tossed into the recycle bin at work. I pulled them out and they were covered int eh most gorgeous stiff red coated coverstock. Super thick and printed with a leather like pattern. I reversed them and put the printed side inside and the flat side on the outside of the books. the cardstock is super thick. I can't wait to use one. I made a mistake on one and get to keep it. 🙂 Anyway these are listed on my ArtFire shop here.

Les Calepin de Lapin and Issuu

I found this gem of a sketcher's blog via doodlers anonymous's twitter(@doodler). I really like this person's style, quick sketchy but over layers of background and just wonderful coloring. It's just a sweet bi-lingual blog. Also I found the site Issuu through them which is a site that lets you publish a book free online, particularly nice for sketchbooks, because it lets you almost thumb through the sketchbook and see each set of pages just like you'd look at it in person very nice, better check out Lapin's stuff on there, it rocks.