This website is an interesting idea, the blogger posts a picture and then people are asked to sketch it, send in images and links of their finished work by a particular date then the original blogger posts links. Fantastic idea.Great way to get into the habit of drawing again. I wish it were done more than once a month though.
Another vid from Cordebra on YouTube. This is a journal made in 2004, shuts like a moleskine but is more colorful on the outside.
A little blurry but a nice little vid of a handmade journal filled with art. Love the Hedgehog binding and the finished journal. It’s quite nice.
This is a neat little animation featuring a notebook as a backdrop. I’m pretty sure it’s only MADE to look like stop motion animation but tis’ pretty sweet anyway. I liked it quite a bit.
Another moleskine brand sketchbook. I like this one too.
Check out this cool Moleskine brand Japanese fold notebook. I particularly like the smoke treatment.
I’m a big fan of Gary Reef’s work even if I question it’s archival stability. Painting acrylic over oils will lead to issues in the future, the acrylic will eventually peal off the top of it, but damn it’s so purty I can’t still looking. I love how he wantonly mixes his materials and makes beautiful techniques that would have given my art profs in college heart attacks. (Oils and acrylic arggghhh…..) That being said I wonder how onde could create some of these techniques without the mad mixing?
Check out Millande's little garden art studio. I say little, when I mean "OMG! LOOK AT ALL THAT COPIOUS SPACE! WOW!"
Little gems like this are why I love the internet and YouTube!
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