EX SOMNIUM, COLOR: December 2011

Saturday

The Sketchbook Project part 2

When you sign up for the Sketchbook Project you have to choose one of their themes for your book. I forget what the all the choices were -but I chose "Create & Capture" - it seemed right up my alley. You are allowed to interpret the theme as you wish - I thought it would well with the collage I have been doing.
As a fairly dyslexic person I usually go about stuff backwards so I have been capturing images I like from magazines and creating collages with them and then adding doodles and words to make them my own....
Here are some pages I started for the book:

The Sketch Book Project part 1

This fall I signed up for The Sketchbook Project - my book arrived in the mail and last weekend I took a little "me" time and started working on it. I thought I would document it's progress.

The fun package arrived from Art House Coop in Brooklyn

They sent me a notebook to work some magic on and information & rules for the project

so the first thing I did was rip it all apart -
but carefully saved the bar code to reapply to the finished cover
to identify it as mine

I selected handmade papers for the outside and inside of the cover

I decided on the look of an old book -this paper looks like distressed leather

I can't live with out Best Test spray adhesive!

For the inside of the cover I used a beautiful piece of marbleized paper
I've been saving to for ages and it was perfect for this project.

I cut it carefully to size so I didn't waste any of it...

Here it is with both papers applied over the original cardboard cover
but I thought it still needed "something"

it needed a spine -for this I used a piece of "suede" paper in dark blue - I wrote on it with a metallic pen. The title is "Create & Capture" the theme I selected for my project