NEW ART: I've uploaded some "new" art (older pieces that I've not had online before). You can see them in the July archives.
Journal: Reporter journal.
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This blank journal has front and back collaged covers made with copies and transfers from the doodles and jottings out of my actual notebooks from when I was a newspaper reporter.
I would frequently find myself sitting in meetings for hours on end, meetings with little happening but with interesting people to look at and caricature. I also found myself sketching bizarre stream-of-consciousness kinds of images based on some random comment or phrase from a meeting that clicked in my head and came out through the pen in my hand.
The covers are heavy-weight art paper with collaged imagery and decorative papers. Using watercolor, various papers, acrylic mediums, and ink, I transformed the basic pen and ink doodles into a colorful and complete image.
The binding is a basic plastic coil binder.
Inside, the journal is filled with a variety of papers that I have on hand in my art supplies. From lined to blank to sketch to colored to graph to tracing paper, you'll find each page to be a new experience, whether you intend to use the journal as a place to write, sketch, or glue your own ephemera inside. There are also two medium-size manila envelopes worked into the binding at the front and back, perfect for storing loose papers or notes.
The journal is 10" tall, 7.25" wide, and .25" thick. Variations in the cover, paper, etc. are part of its hand-made nature and are intentional. The cover is not smooth, but is an actual collage with varying thickness and texture.
Price: $25
Labels: collage, for writers, gift, journals, mixed media, stationery, watercolor, whimsical
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