Coffee and blank books

This week has undoubtedly been caffeinated. My artwork fee for Caplan Artwork Designs is buzzing properly. The Bainbridge Island Artwork Museum despatched information this week that my e book Espresso Beans Plus H2O is included in an exhibit catalogue “Open Sesame” that can come out in March 2023!

Numerous inventive issues are percolating! Right here’s a video have a look at my e book Espresso Beans Plus H2O.

The portfolio web page on my web site has extra images and data.

In final Monday’s put up I shared a pig portray I started with the surplus blue paint I had on account of the nonetheless in progress secret artwork fee. Effectively, right here’s progress on the pig portray. The week has been very busy so I’m glad to have this a lot achieved on a brand new portray.

I nonetheless make a lot of my artist books from scratch – hand stitching the bindings, paper folding and all. Espresso Beans Plus H2O is one instance. Patchwork Poems is one other. However a while in the past I obtained some very useful recommendation from Laura Russell on the 23 Sandy Gallery (an artist e book gallery I work with).

Laura inspired me to deal with my e book content material, my tales and illustrations, as not a lot on creating sophisticated e book bindings. So these days I purchase and use well-constructed clean books to put in writing and attract. Most of the books I purchase have sewn bindings and can lay flat whereas in use. High quality of paper and the flexibility to put flat are attributes I search in my clean books.

There’s a domestically owned artwork provide retailer, not removed from the place I dwell, Columbia Artwork and Drafting, that recurrently has good high quality sketchbooks of their “purchase one get one free” part. I prefer to undergo this part like a vacuum cleaner, hoovering up sketchbooks!! 🤣

Right here’s what I obtained: six 3 x 5 inch hardcover sketchbooks for pen and ink work, two 5.5 x 8.5 inch hardcover sketchbooks for heavy watercolor and gouache work, two 6 x 9 inch hardcover books and 4 8.5 x 11 inch hardcover books all of which can settle for ink, colour pencil and light-weight watercolor and gouache work! Once we obtained house from the artwork provide retailer I began straight away on a drawing in one of many new clean books… which can get shared on my e-mail publication later this week and I’ll proceed sharing as time goes.

Right here’s a limerick I wrote and illustrated about clean books.

Right here’s a pleasant article about journaling and what’s good about conserving a journal.

And Sketchbook Skool is enjoyable too – plenty of movies with drawings in motion.

Hope your clean books will quickly include your very personal delights! See you subsequent Monday or so.