Yet another blog I love and found via Twitter: Doodlers Anonymous fan-freaking-tastic. Great art, great content and awesome images! Head over and check them out and folow them on twitter to know what they update!
I meant to get his post up last night but I was too tired after editing all my etsy and artfire items for the new postal rates. I’ve been shipping items off partially on my own dollar because I forgot to change shipping rates when they first changed. Damn. Anyway.
These journals are made of old advertising signs, the large vinyls banners you see outside of businesses, that’s these. I cut them up into small pieces ready to be turned into journals. I stitch pockets inside, those pockets are made of cardstock posters, the same stuff my jotters are made of. I then use natural hemp to stitch the paper into the book. I use Wausau 24lb, 25% cotton laid textured paper..
MOst are up on my artfire account now.
I like these images so much I'm posting more than one item from that artist. Really like sparkleface's imagery. good stuff head over to flickr to see more.
I rather like this, though the subject is sad, the image is really neat, love the colors and texture, by sparkleface on flickr.
Mandy is a poet and a zinester. I "met" her online years ago through LJ, i'm not sure how long ago. I've been the recipient of several of her teeny tiny chap books and delight in them. Her most recent adventures include some really sweet collages overlay with her poetry and that of her friends. Check out her work on flickr, it's well worth the time. It may give you some ideas for your own journals.
I try not to shill my stuff to aggressively on here, to try and keep it real, you know, whatever that means. BUT. I need to replenish the coffers. I need to make a few sales. So if you support Comfortable Shoes Studio in any way shape or for head over to either my etsyshop or my artfire shop and check out what I’ve got to offer and show your support.
I splurged this weekend when I found reams of paper on sales and ut my reserve moneys in half by buying a ton of paper. That means a lot of new product in the long run (did I mention it was a LOT of paper) but right now it means I’m strapped for cash. SIGH.
Check out the ArtJournal Stimulus Project over here at D'Blogala. It's a series of PDF and interactive discussions on artjournaling done online. D'Blogala does a series of prompts that i like very much so I suspect this online course would be well worth the $15 being charged,
I've been working in the 100% recycled journal for a few days now. I've filled a few pages,but I've been working it in my usual manner of actually working on 4 or 5 pages at a time and working ahead and cleaning my brushed out on future pages. It's a style that works well for me in thicker journals and less well with journals that are jotter thick. The beauty of this journal is that I'm not overly concerned with using up the pages, they aren't precious to me in any way say like, fabriano or stonehenge even.
That being said I've found tha the gesso is a pain in my arse. Pure and simply it didn't adhere overly well to the super slick and glossy pages of the Nat Geo mag i used to make my pages. The culprit as I've found it- hte brush I for application. I used a watercolor brush (an old one, calm down) and it put on a very thin layer that dried fast, which was my goal. I should have gone for better coverage and covered fewer pages. the pages that I applied a thick coat have less of an issue with scraping and weird behavior. the thin pages the gesso scrapes off, which can lead to some very cool antiquing effects but wasn't what Iwas really looking for.
Don't get me wrong I love this journal, but I had to learn how to use it.
Follow the link to flickr and tell ThirdPersonPossesive what to do with all the cardstock strips she's got.
I've been working on this idea of some 100% recycled sketchbooks. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of gesso'd pages made of newspaper or magazines. I first experimented with this idea back in 1999, I gesso'd a hundred or so pages of newspaper and drew on them. I have no idea where those pages went or what ever happened to them. All I know is that I love to draw on gesso, especially when it's on top of chunky paper. The rougher the paper the more i like it. So why would I want to experiment with gesso on magazine apges? Color and pattern. It takes away the fear of the precious white page, the empty the making of the first mark.
The first mark is there just whited out with gesso. I used a thin layer of gesso to cover up the words and images from a national geographic special magazine. I snagged 3 copies from the trash, chopped and stitched it up into a 3.5×5 inch book that is just a hair over 1 inch thick. The binding is a standard button hole style binding. I fouled up the spine a tad, but the spine is made of a recyled tyvek envelope that I had recieved somethign in. The book is about 98% recycled. The book board inside is not recycled and the thread is of course new material, but the rest all recycled.
I digress. I went through the book with brush and gesso and put a thin layer of gesso over images and words. I lightened pages that were too dark to write on. My first intent was to draw in this book with a ultr fine point sharpie or pigma pen. The pages are so slick that thegesso adhere'd well but will still scratch off, which leads to more ideas but wasn't what I had planned on. My initial goal was to use this as a sketchbook and journal. Sketching is easier in this book than writing. Mainly due to that issue witht he gesso scratching off.
I intended for this to be somethign of a prototype of sorts. I wanted to do a limited edition with pre-gessoed pages BUT it took so long to gesso up the 300 pages (all day) that I'd have to charge an exhorbitant amount to sell these and recoup any profits. Anyway, I'm in love with the size and chunkiness of the book and I've been using it a little bit here and there. I am going to make a few one of a kind versions of the book. BUt be aware you'll see some more sketches on here than you have in the past.
