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Monday, January 14, 2013

The Midwinter Journal 2012/2013 aka The Quinn Book - part two

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and are looking forward to the second installment of the Quinn Book that I filled in my vacation. (You can read why it's called that in my previous post.)

While I was working in this book I discovered that I really enjoyed using stencils and materials in a different way than the obvious one. I love using premade art supplies (there is so much gorgeous stuff out there), but I don't like a premade look, so it became my challenge to get a bit of an abstract layout with ready made supplies. It was a lot of fun to play that way and definitely something I want to explore further. You know...with the thousand other things I want to explore further some time someday somehow. ;-)

So here's some more spreads!

This is my absolute favorite spread in the entire book!

I never thought of using rub ons and a circle template this way before.

I don't know if you can tell, but the clothes on these paper dolls are cut out from paper. These were done from stencils too.

Gouache (Talens) and brush pen (Pitt), hello my darling circles and ribbons!

The rose stickers were actually intended to stick on your bike!

I don't know if you can read it, but it says "The child is always hungry". Ain't that the truth! ;-)
 
I had a lot of trouble getting this one right, but it worked out in the end.
 
The card on the left was made by my friend Chanou. A little origami christmas tree!

And that concludes the artsy part of the journal. As I said last time I also added a bunch of photographs, but those were hard to take a snapshot of, since the glare was too prominent. I filled the book about two thirds with images and art. The rest of the book has been reserved for my writing. How I did that I will show you coming Wednesday!

Until then I wish all of you a wonderful and artsy week!