Love the packed pages of robobop's moleskines. There is so much going on I don't know where to look All I know is that no matter where I look, my eyes are happy!
I'm particularly digging on MegK2007's flickr stream of journals pages. All done in a moleskine, but wonderful collages of empheria and life's detritus as well as some great use (better) of scrap booking items. Wonderful
I particularly enjoy this page of this altered book by mindbum. I initially found this flickr through doodler's anonymous (my newest website to obsessively pour over) And stuck around because mindbum does his/her art in a book. I've always wanted to get into altered books but can't. As a bookbinder I adore books and I have a hard time drawing in them and paining in them. I have a couple that I've started and I never get more than a dozen or so pages in before I give up and switch to blank pages.
It's part of the reason I made the magazine page journal. I wanted to have something to work on top of and to help get past the fear of the blank page. It's not bad. The paper is inexpensive (got the mags for free) and I don't mind skipping pages and moving on. I may see if I can find some damaged books at the thrift store and work in those. We'll see.
Via Doodlers Anonymous I found the website of James Jean. Sweat Jesus the guy can draw. FOllow the link for Sketchand find a series of sketchbooks to peruse (my favorite thing to do on the internet.) ALso check out his other artwork on teh site, it's all very very good. Again be ready to spend an hour or two checking everything out.
I love this journal page, pasted in bits of life and ink added. Very cool
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.
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
Julia Wentz does the comic Fart Party. It's great. I love this sketch and her note at the top, click through to see it in a larger size. Well worth it. Also check out her website here.
Love these. I would buy fabric with this pattern on it, or large paper, or wrapping paper. Holy crap can you imagine this on Christmas wrap, silver paper?
Now I'm thinking of drawing circular patterns in my journal. It's very cool.
Jessica Doyle sells stuff on etsy you can get a link by going to her website here.
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.